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Vol.83    No.  3 


September  1977 


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MUGGERIDGE 
REVISITED 

It  has  been  a  fascinating  saga  of  a 
brilliant,  outstanding  world  figure 
moving,  first  gently,  then  with  tremen- 
dous vigour  and  force  to  a  confession 
of  faith  in  Jesus  Christ. 

f^aicolm  Muggeridge  needs  no  in- 
troduction to  a  literate  world.  A  noted 
journalist,  a  radio  and  TV  personality, 
sometimes  churlish  (almost  a  Chris- 
tian curmudgeon  if  such  a  conundrum 
is  possible)  Muggeridge  has  become 
more  and  more  vocal  as  he  has  be- 
come more  and  more  strong  and 
stable  in  the  Christian  faith. 

Once  an  agnostic  of  sorts,  a  hu- 
manist by  parental  training,  he  was 
never  far  from  the  Kingdom  of  God. 
The  Bible  was  too  relevant;  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  was  too  evident  for  him 
to  ignore. 

In  retrospect,  he  feels  his  whole  life 
was  a  quest  for  God  that  came  to  its 
goal  sometime  in  1933. 

Then  like  all  "new  born  babes"  he 
began  to  toddle,  then  to  walk,  and 
now  to  run,  in  The  Way. 

His  book  "Jesus  Rediscovered" 
burst  on  the  world  like  the  glow  of 
some  new-found  galaxy.  But  even  the 
brilliant  journalist  was  inadequate  to 
express  fully  the  revelation  of  the 
Christ,  "in  Whom  dwelleth  all  the  full- 
ness of  the  Godhead  bodily,"  and  in 
Whose  Being  are  all  the  "treasures  of 
wisdom  and  knowledge." 

Since   then    Muggeridge   has   ex- 


pressed himself  with  a  more  conser- 
vative orthodoxy  and  has  become  a 
fine  Christian  spokesman.  His  recent 
writings,  (autobiographical)  Chroni- 
cles of  Wasted  Time,  have  already 
run  through  two  volumes,  with  more 
to  come.  His  writing  is  skilled,  sharp 
and  profound.  His  wit  is  evident.  His 
insights  are  keen. 

Readers,  however  they  view  the 
old  or  the  new  Muggeridge,  will  enjoy 
the  article  in  this  issue,  "The  Book 
That  Burns."  Read  it  and  thank  God 
for  what  He  is  doing  in  the  minds  and 
hearts  of  men  and  women  today. 

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Vol.83,  Number  3.  September  1977.  Published 
Quarterly  by  Ontario  Bible  College.  25  Ballyconnor 
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MUGGERIDGE  TELLS  EDITORS 
CHRISTIANITY  IS  ALTERNATIVE  IN 
WESTERN  WORLD  GONE  AWRY' 

"The  Christian  alternative  is  our 
only  hope,  our  only  prospect,  in  a 
darkening  world,"  British  author,  critic 
and  TV  personality  Malcolm  Mug- 
geridge told  members  of  the  Evangel- 
ical Press  Association  in  their  29th 
annual  convention  May  9-1 1 . 

"if  Christian  revelation  is  true," 
Muggeridge  declared,  "then  it  must 
be  true  for  all  times  and  circum- 
stances." 

Speaking  to  338  editors,  writers 
and  publishers  in  the  Howard  John- 
son Convention  Center  in  Springfield, 
Mo.,  the  British  lecturer  concluded 
that  "finding  in  everything  only  decep- 
tion and  nothingness,  the  soul  is  con- 
strained to  have  recourse  to  God 
Himself  and  to  rest  content  with  Him." 
(E.  P.  News  Service) 


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THE  BOOK  THAT  BURNS 


Malcolm  Muggeridge* 

on  the  Bible  and  Western 

Civilization 


I  have  a  vivid  memory  of  how,  when  I 
was  very  young — at  most  in  my  early 
teens — I  was  taken  by  my  father  to 
some  sort  of  Fabian  Society  gathering 
to  be  addressed  by  H.  G.  Wells,  and  of 
hearing  him  in  that  high  squeaky  voice 
insisting  that  we  just  haven't  got  time 
to  occupy  ourselves  with  the  largely 
mythological  doings  of  an  obscure, 
quarrelsome  nomadic  tribe  like  the 
Israelites. 

He  was  referring,  of  course,  to  the 
Bible,  and  specifically  to  the  Old  Tes- 
tament. Nowadays,  such  an  observa- 
tion would  pass  quite  unnoticed,  hu- 
manistic scepticism  having  moved  on 
to  far  wilder  essays  in  unbelief  than 
Wells'  insistence  on  his  inability  to  find 
time  for  reading  and  studying  the 
Bible. 

Then,  however,  it  still  seemed  de- 
lightfully audacious,  not  to  say  cheeky, 
and  the  little  man  was  obviously  well 
pleased  with  the  notion  that  he  was  far 
too  occupied  with  matters  of  high  im- 
port, with  writing  and  speculation  of 
the  utmost  significance  for  the  future 
of  mankind,  to  bother  his  head  about 
such  antediluvian  trivia  as  the  Garden 
of  Eden,  the  rise  and  fall  of  tinpot  mon- 
archs  like  Saul  and  David,  and  the 
ranting  of  Hebrew  prophets  like  Jere- 
miah and  Isaiah. 

His  audiences  were  also  well 
pleased;  their  faces  wore  that  look  of 
quiet,  amused  appreciation  with  which 
the  intelligentsia  were  wont  in  those 
days  to  respond  to  any  denigration  of 
traditional  Christian  attitudes. 

I,  too,  in  so  far  as  I  may  be  said  to 
have  thought  about  the  matter  at  all, 
was  very  much  of  their  way  of  thinking, 
having  been  brought  up  to  accept  ag- 
nosticism if  not  straight  atheism,  as 
the  appropriate  twentieth-century  re- 
sponse of  an  enlightened  mind  to  the 
Christian  religion  and  its  Scriptures. 

As  I  considered  preparing  this  lec- 
ture in  commemoration  of  a  great 
Bible-lover,  Olivier  Beguin,  and  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Bible  Society  he 
did  so  much  to  promote,  it  seemed  to 
me  that  my  purpose  must  be  to,  as  it 
were,  shout  back  at  Wells  across  the 


intervening  60  years  or  so,  that  now, 
contrary  to  the  opinion  he  had  ex- 
pressed, we  desperately  need  the  in- 
sights and  lessons  conveyed  by  that 
ancient  history  of  the  Jewish  people 
he  so  disparaged,  as  it  has  miracu- 
lously come  down  to  us  in  the  splendid 
vesture  of  our  Authorized  Version. 

Furthermore,  that  were  our  present 
follies  and  confusions  to  result  in  the 
total  destruction  of  what  we  still  call 
Western  civilization,  so  that  no  trace 
remained  of  its  literature,  art  and 
learning — a  perfectly  clear  possibility 
today — and  were,  centuries  later,  a 
copy  of  our  English  Bible  to  be  discov- 
ered in  a  Dead  Sea  cave  like  the 
famous  Scrolls,  and  then  deciphered, 
it  would  still,  we  may  be  sure,  uplift  its 
discoverers  as  it  has  successive  gen- 
erations of  Christians. 

As  for  the  pursuits  and  speculations 
which  Wells  considered  to  be  so  ur- 
gent and  important  that  they  quite 
ruled  out  the  Bible  as  an  irrelevant  ar- 
chaism— I  mean  the  quest  for  power 
to  institute  an  earthly  paradise,  for  af- 
fluence to  make  it  easeful  and  pros- 
perous, for  knowledge  to  enlarge  the 
citizenry's  understanding  and  happi- 
ness, or,  more  accurately,  pleasures 
of  one  sort  and  another,  to  keep  them 
in  a  state  of  bemused  contentment — 
these,  surely,  are  now  seen  as  a  cul- 
de-sac  into  which  we  have  been  led, 
and  from  which  there  would  seem  to 
be,  in  earthly  terms,  no  means  of 
egress. 

In  such  a  case,  far  from  appearing 
irrelevant,  the  history  of  the  Children 
of  Israel  as  recounted  in  the  Old  Tes- 
tament seems  more  closely  related 
than  ever  to  our  own,  as  the  sublime 
hope  of  deliverance,  proclaimed  in  the 
New  Testament,  seems  more  than 
ever  requisite. 

A  Ukrainian  pastor  and  true  servant 
of  Christ  showed  me  once  a  whole 
Bible  which  had  been  beautifully  and 
meticulously  copied  out  by  some  of  his 
compatriots  to  serve  in  their  clandes- 
tine worship. 

I  thought  of  these  secret  believers 
toiling  away  night  after  night  at  their 


task,  and  reflected  that  in  all  history 
there  was  no  other  written  matter 
whose  reproduction  by  such  arduous 
means  and  in  such  hazardous  circum- 
stances could  conceivably  have 
seemed  worthwhile. 

Would  similar  risks  have  been  taken 
and  similar  loving  care  expended  on 
copying  out,  say,  the  Magna  Carta  if 
for  some  reason  it  had  become  unob- 
tainable? Or  Lady  Chatterley's 
Lover?  Or  the  Thoughts  of  Chairman 
Mao?  Or,  descending  to  what  Dr. 
Johnson  called  unresisting  imbeci- 
lity— the  recently  acclaimed  Helsinki 
Declaration?  The  very  suggestion  is 
preposterous. 

At  a  more  humdrum  level,  the  same 
point  was  brought  home  to  me  when, 
while  in  Moscow  last  year  on  a  filming 
expedition  to  make  a  TV  program  on 
Dostoevsky,  I  was  credibly  informed 
that  a  Russian  Bible  in  good  condition 
fetched  about  the  same  price  on  the 
black  market  as  a  bottle  of  genuine 
Scotch  whisky.  Just  imagine  that! 

Again,  Solzhenitsyn  has  described 
how  in  a  Soviet  labor  camp  one  of  the 
inmates  somehow  managed  to  be 
always  cheerful  and  brotherly. 

In  the  evening  after  work  he  would 
climb  up  into  his  bunk  and  pull  out  of 
his  pocket  some  much-folded  pieces 
of  paper  which  he  then  proceeded  to 
read  with  obvious  delight — a  practice 
that  evidently  ministered  to  his  re- 
markable serenity  in  that  terrible 
place.  It  turned  out,  of  course,  that  he 
was  a  Christian,  and  that  on  the 
pieces  of  paper  he  so  treasured  he 
had  scribbled  passages  from  the 
Bible. 

The  truth  is  that  the  Light  which 
shines  in  this  incredible  book  simply 
cannot  be  put  out.  How  beholden  to  it 
were  Bunyan,  Milton — so  many  writ- 
ers, and  among  them  the  greatest! 

Is  Bach's  music  conceivable  without 
it?  Or  Chartres  Cathedral?  In  how 
many  different  ways  its  words  have 
been  embellished!  In  melodious  plain- 
song,  in  masonry  and  statuary,  in 
marble  and  rich  paint  and  delicate 
Books  of  Hours,   in  solemn  liturgies 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


and  joyful  songs  of  praise. 

Why,  even  one  of  the  American  cos- 
monauts gazing  across  the  strato- 
sphere at  our  little  earth  on  its  diurnal 
course,  was  moved  to  read  verses 
about  the  Creation  from  the  Book  of 
Genesis. 

If  the  Bible  has  survived,  as  it  clearly 
has,  its  contemporary  form-critics  and 
commentators,  then  surely  it  must  be 
considered  immortal,  and  Christians 
be  justified  in  claiming  that  it  is  verit- 
ably the  Word  of  God,  the  expression 
in  written  words  of  that  Word  which 
became  flesh  and  dwelt  among  us  full 
of  grace  and  truth. 

But  procedures  for  exploring  the 
public  mind,  opinion  polls  and  such 
like,  we  are  given  to  understand,  indi- 
cate that  the  number  of  people  who 
believe  that  the  Bible  is  true  is  steadily 
diminishing,  even  though  each  new 
version  continues  to  sell  in  hundreds 
of  thousands,  and  sometimes  millions, 
of  copies. 

Half  a  century  in  the  communica- 
tions business  has  served  to  intensify 
my  scepticism  about  procedures 
which  purport  to  measure  statistically 
individual  and  social  attitudes,  and  I 
have  long  considered  that  the 
Romans  were  more  sensible  in  using 
the  entrails  of  a  chicken  rather  than  a 
sliderule  to  forecast  the  future. 

Perhaps  the  ideal  thing  would  be  to 
use  Dr.  Gallup's  entrails,  which  would 
have  the  additional  advantage  that 
they  could  only  be  used  once. 

Be  that  as  it  may,  there  would  seem 
to  be  little  doubt  that  of  late  a  continu- 
ing process  of  eroding  the  Bible's 
credibility  has  been  taking  place, 
which  is  doubtless  not  unconnected 
with  the  announcement  some  years 
ago  by  a  number  of  eminent  theolo- 
gians, that  God  had  died — a  discov- 
ery, incidentally,  earlier  announced  by 
Nietzsche  shortly  before  he  pro- 
ceeded to  the  madhouse  in  Venice 
where  he  was  to  end  his  days. 

After  all,  it  follows  that  if  God  really 
has  died  then  the  Bible,  His  Word, 
must  likewise  be  considered  as,  if  not 
dead,  then  decidedly  moribund. 

Its  authority,  admittedly,  was  for 
many  centuries  unquestioningly  ac- 
cepted, not  just  by  run-of-the-mill 
Christians,  but  by  the  most  erudite, 
perceptive  and  inspired  minds  of  the 
time. 

Now  we  are  asked  to  conclude  that, 
with  the  coming  of  the  twentieth  cen- 
tury, and  the  immense  achievements 
in  it  in  the  way  of  exploring  the  phe- 


nomena and  mechanisms  of  life,  the 
old  believing  attitude  towards  the  Bible 
has  become  ridiculous. 

Twentieth-century  men  and  women 
think  they  know  better  than  their  fore- 
bears, and  dismiss  with  contumely 
what  scholastics  like  Thomas  Aquinas 
devoted  their  lives  to  studying,  and  a 
Blaise  Pascal  saw  as  one  of  the  great 
realities  in  a  world  given  over  to  the 
pursuit  of  fantasy.  What  a  Michelan- 
gelo and  a  Leonardo  da  Vinci  por- 
trayed with  such  frenetic  industry  and 
inspiration,  and  a  Johann  Sebastian 
Bach  and  a  Feodor  Dostoevsky  found 
to  be  a  major  source  of  illumination. 

Personally,  I  find  it  on  any  showing 
quite  ludicrous  to  suppose  that,  for  19 
of  Christendom's  20  centuries.  Chris- 
tians were  credulous  idiots  ready  to 
believe  any  tomfoolery  the  Bible  fos- 
tered, and  that  then,  with  the  coming 
of  Darwinism  and  all  that  followed 
therefrom,  the  scales  fell  from  their 
eyes,  and  they  realized  that  the  bibli- 
cal truths  they  had  been  induced  to 
accept  were  largely  fraudulent  and  ab- 
surd. 

For  one  thing,  it  would  seem  to  me 
that  our  twentieth  century,  far  from 
being  notable  for  scientific  scepticism, 
is  one  of  the  most  credulous,  gullible 
eras  in  all  history. 

It  is  not  that  people  believe  in  noth- 
ing— that  would  be  bad  enough — but 
that  they  believe  in  anything — which  is 
terrible. 

Recoiling  as  they  do,  from  accept- 
ing the  validity  of  miracles,  and  priding 
themselves  on  seeing  the  Incarnation 
as  a  transcendental  contrick,  they  will 
accept  at  its  face  value  any  proposi- 
tion, however  nonsensical,  that  is  pre- 
sented in  scientific  or  sociological  jar- 
gon. 

Could  any  medieval  schoolman,  I 
ask  myself,  sit  through  a  universally 
applauded  television  series  like  Bron- 
owski's  Ascent  of  Man  without  a 
smile  of  derision  at  such  infantile  ac- 
ceptance of  unproven  and  unprovable 
assertions? 

Not  to  mention  television  advertise- 
ments, on  a  basis  of  which  the  most 
expensively-educated  populations  in 
the  Western  world  alter  their  dietary 
and  sartorial  habits,  puff  happily  at 
lethal  cigarets  recommended  as  being 
conducive  to  romantic  encounters  by 
burbling  waterfalls  or  on  golden 
beaches  washed  by  azure  seas,  and 
generally  follow  every  whim  and  fancy 
wished  upon  them  by  the  tellymas- 
ters. 


Wherein,  then,  I  asked  myself  in 
one  of  those  decisive  moments  which 
arise  all  unexpectedly  and  fatefully  as 
one  struggles  to  break  out  from  the  co- 
coon of  fantasy  and  fly  away  into  the 
glorious  freedom  of  reality — wherein 
lies  the  difference  between,  say,  a  Pa- 
scal putting  aside  all  his  learning,  all 
his  egotistic  originality,  all  his  pride, 
and  meekly  accepting  the  Bible  as 
God's  very  Word,  and  some  campus 
or  media  pundit  scornfully  dismissing 
any  such  notion  as  inadmissibly  ob- 
scurantist and  outmoded? 

The  answer  came  to  me,  clear,  and 
in  a  single  word — the  word  "faith, "  as 
defined  in  the  Epistle  to  the  Hebrews: 
"The  substance  of  things  hoped  for, 
the  evidence  of  things  not  seen." 

Then  I  understood — on  the  one 
hand,  truth  in  terms  of  faith,  as  it  has 
shone  through  the  Christian  centuries, 
irradiating  everything  and  everyone; 
on  the  other,  today's  truth  in  terms  of 
historicity,  of  fact  and  circumstance,  of 
clocks  ticking  out  eternity  and  infinity 
burgeoning  as  the  millions  of  light- 
years  expand  into  milliards. 

It  is  the  difference  between  Milton's 
Paradise  Lost  and  Marx's  paradise- 
to-be;  between  truth  which  is  all-em- 
bracing, and  meaning  which  is  analyti- 
cal— as  it  might  be  between  a  body 
with  its  flesh  and  muscles  and  veins 
and  arteries,  a  body  glorious  in  its  life 
and  fecundity,  and  an  anatomical  re- 
presentation of  a  body,  showing  the 
skeletal  structure,  the  alimentary, 
bronchial  and  reproductive  systems, 
all  perfectly  accurate,  except  that  it 
isn't  a  body  but  a  diagram. 

In  short,  it  is  the  difference  between 
how  the  Bible  presented  itself  to  a  St. 
Augustine  or  a  Dr.  Johnson,  and  how 
it  has  presented  itself  to  its  contem- 
porary expounders — an  Albert 
Schweitzer,  a  Rudolph  Bultmann. 

The  greatest  and  most  articulate 
mystics  admit  their  inability  to  describe 
the  moment  when  faith  takes  posses- 
sion of  heart  and  mind.  It  is  like  a  film 
coming  into  sync;  all  is  confused  and 
incoherent,  shadowy  figures  and  inar- 
ticulate words,  and  then,  suddenly 
with  a  click,  sound  and  vision  are 
brought  into  focus  and  become  clear 
and  coherent. 

In  the  light  of  this  illumination,  I  un- 
derstand that  all  the  disputation  that 
has  raged  in  recent  years  as  to 
whether  an  historical  Jesus  can  be 
constructed  out  of  the  biblical  one,  as 
to  the  precise  meaning  of  the  Bible's 


words  as  distinct  from  what  they  have 
conveyed  to  generations  of  Christians, 
literate  and  illiterate,  sophisticated  and 
simple,  celebrated  and  nonentities — 
that  all  this  disputation  has  been  ut- 
terly sterile  and  futile,  the  terrible  pe- 
dantry of  unbelievers  desperately 
trying  to  put  together  with  their  intel- 
lects the  debris  of  a  shattered  faith. 

As  C.  S.  Lewis  indicates  in  his  in- 
comparable Screwtape  Letters,  it  is  a 
favorite  device  of  the  devil  to  set 
people  wrangling  about  nonessentials 
in  order  to  take  their  minds  off  essen- 
tials, which  he  then  filches — a  practice 
also  favored  by  pickpockets  and  politi- 
cians. 

Either  the  Bible  is  veritably  the  Word 
of  God,  or  it  is  merely  another  Iliad, 
only  about  the  Jewish  people  rather 
than  the  classical  Greeks;  just  as 
Jesus  is  either  the  Son  of  God,  as  He 
claimed,  or  one  more  exalte  knocking 
around  in  Galilee  during  the  Roman 
occupation  when  such  types  proli- 
ferated there. 

If  the  Bible  is  merely  a  very  fine 
book,  and  Jesus  no  more  than  a  very 
fine  man,  then  Christianity  is,  at  best, 
an  exhibit  in  a  museum  of  world  reli- 
gion and  the  Bible  a  haphazard  collec- 
tion of  legendary  writings,  of  interest 
only  to  anthropologists  and  other  spe- 
cialists. 

Regrettably,  except  in  specially 
pious  homes,  there  is  no  family  read- 
ing, and  the  habit  of  a  daily  portion, 
whether  as  prescribed  in  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer  or  in  collections  like 
Daily  Light  is  fast  disappearing. 

Yet,  as  I  have  found,  there  is  no 
more  uplifting  and  stimulating  way  of 
beginning  a  day. 

The  anxiety,  depression  and  de- 
spair liable  to  afflict  us  all,  perhaps 
particularly  nowadays,  are  a  factor  of 
the  Ego  and  it  is  remarkable  how  they 
are  dispersed  by  the  words  of  the 
Bible — as,  the  beautiful  poetry  of  the 
Psalms,  the  power  and  majesty  of 
Isaiah,  the  sheer  narrative  skill  of  the 
story  of  Job  and  Jonah,  the  tremen- 
dous drama  of  David's  life,  and  the 
sayings  of  those  truly  inspired  men, 
the  Hebrew  prophets. 

But,  of  course,  for  Christians  the  ul- 
timate relevance  of  the  Bible  lies  in  the 
New  Testament,  in  its  account  of  the 
Incarnation  and  all  the  momentous  se- 
quel. 

Our  world  as  it  has  come  to  pass 
through  the  Christian  centuries,  began 
when,  as  it  is  so  wonderfully  put  in  the 
Wisdom  of  Solomon: 


While  all  things  were  in  quiet  si- 
lence, and  night  was  in  the  midst  of 
her   swift  course,    thine   Almighty 
Word  leaped  down  from  Heaven  out 
of  thy  Royal  Throne. 
Western    man — ourselves — thus 
came  into  existence,  and  if  ever  that 
Almighty  Word  really  does  become  ir- 
relevant, then,  so  are  we! 

We  and  the  Incarnation  stand  or  fall 
together;  to  abandon  or  repudiate  its 
circumstances  and  consequences  as 
set  forth  in  the  New  Testament,  is  tan- 
tamount to  tearing  up  the  title  deeds  of 
a  property,  and  inviting  in  the  squat- 
ters and  the  demolition  men. 

As  it  happens,  we  are  living  in  one 
of  those  periods  when  the  only  cer- 
tainty is  uncertainty,  and  the  only  sure 
prospect  the  absence  of  any  sure 
prospect. 

It  is  quite  possible,  if  not  probable, 
that  many  of  my  present  listeners  will 
live  to  see  the  final  disintegration  of 
our  Western  civilization;  and  as  part  of 
that  process  our  religious  institutions 
and  their  affiliates  are  likely  to  share 
the  fate  of  secular  institutions — our 
parliaments,  our  law  courts,  our  uni- 
versities, so  that  an  Olivier  Beguin  of 
the  future  may  well  find  himself  pro- 
ducing and  circulating  clandestine 
Bibles,  perhaps  written  out  by  hand 
like  my  Ukrainian  friends. 

There  are  many  indications  that  this 
total  dissolution  of  our  present  way  of 
life  is  not  something  that  is  going  to 
happen,  but  that  is  already  happening. 
It  is  difficult  to  resist  the  conclusion 
that  there  is  a  death-wish  at  work  at 
the  heart  of  our  civilization  whereby 
our  bankers  promote  the  inflation 
which  will  ruin  them,  our  educational- 
ists seem  to  create  the  moral  and  in- 
tellectual chaos  which  will  nullify  their 
professional  purposes,  our  physicians 
invent  new  and  more  terrible  diseases 
to  replace  those  they  have  abolished, 
our  moralists  cut  away  the  roots  of  all 
morality,  and  our  theologians  disman- 
tle the  structure  of  belief  they  exist  to 
expound  and  promote. 

Certainly,  it  is  difficult  to  think  of 
anything  professional  subversives, 
anarchists  and  atheists  have  at- 
tempted which  is  not  being  better 
done  by  the  ostensible  guardians  of 
our  laws,  our  constitutional  liberties 
and  our  religious  faith. 

Jesus  Himself  said:  "Heaven  and 
earth  shall  pass  away,  but  My  words 
shall  not  pass  away." 

I  think  of  Augustine  when,  in  his 
fifty-seventh    year,    the    news    was 


MUGGERIDGE  LOOKS  AT 
HIMSELF 

"I  may,  I  suppose,  regard  myself  (as), 
or  pass  for  being,  a  relatively  suc- 
cessful man.  People  occasionally 
stare  at  me  in  the  streets — that's 
fame.  I  can  fairty  easily  earn  enough 
to  qualify  for  admission  to  the  higher 
slopes  of  the  Internal  Revenue — 
that's  success.  Furnished  with  money 
and  a  little  fame,  even  the  elderly,  if 
they  care  to,  may  partake  of  trendy 
diversions — that's  pleasure.  It  might 
happen  once  in  a  while  that  some- 
thing I  said  or  wrote  was  sufficiently 
heeded  for  me  to  persuade  myself 
that  it  represented  a  serious  impact 
on  our  time— that's  fulfillment.  Yet  I 
say  to  you — and  I  beg  you  to  believe 
me — multiply  these  tiny  triumphs  by  a 
million,  add  them  all  together,  and 
they  are  nothing — less  than  nothing, 
a  positive  impediment — measured 
against  one  draught  of  that  living 
water  Christ  offers  to  the  spiritually 
thirsty,  irrespective  of  who  or  what 
they  are." 

— ^from  Jesus  Rediscovered 


brought  to  him  that  Rome  had  fallen. 
In  worldly  terms,  it  was  a  dire  catastro- 
phe; confronted  with  it,  Augustine 
turned  his  thoughts  away  from  the 
earthly  city  which  had  meant  so  much 
to  him,  and  towards  the  City  of  God. 

This  is  a  city,  he  said,  which,  unlike 
their  earthly  ones,  men  did  not  build, 
and  which  men  cannot  destroy.  What  I 
have  been  trying,  very  inadequately, 
to  say  is  that  the  Bible  is  its  book. 


'Malcolm  Muggendge  is  a  tamed  British  writer  and  television 
personality  This  article  is  a  condensation  of  the  New  Zealand 
Bible  Society's  Olivier  Beguin  Memorial  Lecture  which  Mug- 
gendge delivered  to  a  capacity  crowd  in  Auckland  Anglican 
Cathedral  of  the  Holy  Trinity  Reprinted  from  Eternity  Magazine 
and  Challenge  Weekly  (NZj 


HAVE  YOU? 

If  you  have  not  made  life  a  little  richer 
and  its  conditions  a  little  more  just  by 
your  living,  you  have  not  touched  the 
world. 

David  Starr  Jordan 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


BARRY  MOORE 
CANADA'S  HOME-GROWN  EVANGELIST 

Billy  Sunday,  Billy  Graham,  Barry 
Moore — ^they  all  have  something  in 
common  besides  an  easily  remem- 
bered and  alliterative  first  name.  They 
were  athletic  types  and  baseball  was 
their  game.  Perhaps  athleticism  is  sig- 
nificant for  men  like  these  who  must 
expend  so  much  physical  energy  in 
the  course  of  the  profession  to  which 
they  were  called — mass  evangelism. 

There  are  few  tasks  that  drain  a  per- 
son so,  physically,  spiritually  and  men- 
tally, as  that  of  preaching  daily  or  sev- 
eral times  a  day  to  mass  audiences. 
Spiritual  and  mental  discipline  come  in 
the  quiet  of  the  study;  in  meditation 
and  contemplation;  in  prayer  and  Bible 
study.  Exercise  and  the  care  of  the 
body  for  such  men  is  essential  for  their 
well-being  and  for  the  constant  strain 
of  their  ministries. 

Is  it  significant  that  God  so  often 
lays  His  hand  on  those  who  have  ex- 
ercised the  three  disciplines:  soul, 
mind  and  body?  It  would  seem  so, 
since  the  body  is  really  the  temple  of 
God,  the  temple  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

The  life  of  Billy  Sunday  is  well 
known.  Despite  his  detractors,  he  was 
God's  man  for  those  days  that  include 
the  second  great  evangelical  awaken- 
ing. His  works  continue  to  follow  him. 

Billy  Graham's  story  continues  to  be 
written.  Few  men  of  history  have 
made  such  an  impact  for  God.  It  was 
this  writer's  privilege  to  be  closely  as- 
sociated with  him  for  his  first  Toronto 
evangelistic  campaign.  During  those 
days,  it  was  possible  to  see  him  under 
every  conceivable  situation  and  cir- 
cumstance. Humble,  dedicated, 
bold — a  man  of  the  Word  and  a  man  of 
prayer,  this  is  Billy  Graham.  The  writer 
has  a  valued  Bible,  given  by  the  evan- 
gelist and  inscribed  to  him  in  terms  of 
love  and  friendship:  "Loyal  friend. 
Christian  gentleman"  and  several 
other  indications  of  mutual  respect. 

Dr.  Graham  returns  to  Toronto  in 
June,  1978  for  a  much  briefer  cam- 
paign to  be  held  in  f\/laple  Leaf  Gar- 
dens and  the  C.N.E. 

Both  Sunday  and  Graham  have 
been  gifts  of  the  U.S.  Church  to  Can- 
ada and  the  world.  In  the  meantime, 
God  has  prepared  and  used  another, 
home-grown,  Canadian  evangelist, 
Barry  Moore. 

He  too  is  accounted  a  dear  and 
close    personal   frit  nd — a    friendship 


that  spans  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century. 

Barry  played  baseball  and  taught 
school  (in  London,  Ont.)  until  he  was 
slowly  drawn  into  the  then  burgeoning 
work  of  Youth  for  Christ.  As  a  singer 
and  young  preacher,  Moore  appealed 
to  youth  and  adults.  Travels  to  Europe 
gave  him  a  love  for  missionary,  global 
ministry.  Indeed,  he  was  on  the  verge 
of  a  full-time  missionary  career  in 
Europe  (France)  when  God  stopped 
him  in  his  tracks  and  redirected  his 
steps. 

He  took  a  graduate  course  in  Mis- 
sions at  Columbia  Bible  College,  and 
returned  to  London,  seeking  God's  will 
and  place.  He  taught  at  O.B.C.  in  the 
mid-fifties,  and  even  now  serves 
O.B.C.  as  a  member  of  the  Corpora- 
tion. 

Barry's  gift  for  evangelism  is  not  a 
sometime  thing.  He  is  instant  in  sea- 
son and  out  of  season.  At  first  he  spe- 
cialized in  small  Canadian  towns 
(where  the  "big  names"  never  went) 
and  the  rural  areas  that  are  off  the 
beaten  track. 

Even  Canada,  huge  and  needy 
though  it  be,  could  not  contain  him, 
and  "Crusade  Evangelism,  Inc. "  be- 
came "Crusade  Evangelism  Interna- 
tional." There  are  few  countries  of  the 
world  where  Barry  has  not  gone.  Still 
athletically  trim,  though  greying  of 
hair,  pungent  and  powerful  in  his 
preaching,  he  goes  where  God  sends 
him,  invariably  returning  to  his  beloved 


Canada  for  much  of  any  given  year,  to 
continue  to  evangelize  where  most 
evangelists  have  not  gone  or  will  not 

go. 

Fame  has  not  spoiled  Barry  Moore. 
He  knows  and  affirms  that  all  he  does 
is  of  God.  Let  God  remove  His  hand 
from  His  servant,  and  he  becomes  a 
man  with  mouth  and  feet  of  clay. 

As  for  now.  He  is  open  to  all  that 
God  has  for  him.  And  we  at  O.B.C. 
who  share  in  his  ministry  through  in- 
terest and  prayer,  say  "God  bless  and 
continue  to  use  Barry  Moore." 

Anyone  interested  in  contacting  Barry 
Moore  may  do  so  at: 

Crusade  Evangelism  International 

Box  2 

London,  Ontario  N6A  4V3 


THE  STUDY  OF  GOD 

"But  while  the  subject  humbles  the 
mind,  it  also  expands  it.  He  who  often 
thinks  of  God,  will  have  a  larger  mind 
than  the  man  who  simply  plods  around 
this  narrow  globe.  .  .  .  The  most  excel- 
lent study  for  expanding  the  soul,  is 
the  science  of  Christ  and  Him  cruci- 
fied, and  the  knowledge  of  the  God- 
head in  the  glorious  Trinity.  Nothing 
will  so  enlarge  the  intellect,  nothing  so 
magnify  the  whole  soul  of  man.  .  . . " 
— C.  H.  Spurgeon 

"Meditation  is  the  activity  of  calling 
to  mind,  thinking  over,  dwelling  on, 
and  applying  to  oneself,  the  various 
things  that  one  knows  about  the  works 
and  ways  and  purposes  and  promises 
of  God.  It  is  an  activity  of  holy  thought, 
consciously  performed  in  the  pres- 
ence of  God,  under  the  eye  of  God,  by 
the  help  of  God,  as  a  means  of  com- 
munion with  God.  Its  purpose  is  to 
clear  one's  mental  and  spiritual  vision 
of  God,  and  to  let  His  truth  make  its  full 
and  proper  impact  in  one's  mind  and 
heart. 

"Its  effect  is  ever  to  humble  us,  as 
we  contemplate  God's  greatness  and 
glory,  and  our  own  littleness  and  sin- 
fulness, and  to  encourage  and  reas- 
sure us — comfort'  us,  in  the  old, 
strong,  Bible  sense  of  the  word — as 
we  contemplate  the  unsearchable 
riches  of  divine  mercy  displayed  in  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. " 

J.  I.  Packer  in  Moody  Monthly 


Miracle  meetings!  Miracle  services! 
God  at  work!  Hundreds  healed! 

Am  I  right  in  thinking  that  faith 
healers  are  surfacing  in  record 
numbers?  The  church  advertisement 
pages  of  The  Toronto  Star  and  the 
high-pressure  healing  emphasis  on 
several  television  programs  certainly 
leave  that  impression. 

Clearly,  some  of  the  claims  are  mis- 
leading, and  others  are  exaggerated. 
Often  they  create  disgust  and  con- 
tempt in  the  minds  of  thoughtful  peo- 
ple who  might  otherwise  be  open  to 
consider  the  Christian  message. 

More  subtly,  the  excesses  disgust 
thoughtful  Christians,  too,  and  blind 
them  to  the  possibility  of  genuine  spiri- 
tual healing. 

Since  I  have  been  confined  to  a 
wheelchair  1 3  years  as  the  result  of  tu- 


Wheelchair  minister 
says  mania  for  miracles 
distorts  the  gospel 


MttvSUUdMW 


REV.  IXSUE  k.  TARR  and  his  wile,  Cathennp. 
leave  Forft-ard  Baptist  Chiirch  on  Gerrard  St.  E.  Tarr, 
who  has  been  in  a  wheelchair  (or  13  vears  as  a  result 


of  tubercuiar  meiungitis.  objects  to  faith  healeri  who 
imply  thai  if  a  person  is  not  cured  it's  his  ovm  fault 
for   not   having  enough   true   Christian   faith. 


Leslie  K.  Tarr* 

bercular  meningitis,  I  admit  to  having  a 
certain  viewpoint  on  this  subject. 
Some  might  feel  that  my  physical  con- 
dition makes  me  rationalize  on  the 
subject  of  healing  in  order  to  justify  my 
apparent  failure  to  experience  a  physi- 
cal miracle. 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  I  feel  that 
the  possibility  of  divine  healing  exists 
today.  Only  a  fundamentalism  gone  to 
seed  would  maintain  that  miracles 
ceased  in  the  first  century  of  this 
Christian  era.  God  is  no  absentee 
landlord  in  His  own  universe. 

Simplistic  View 

If  that  is  true,  then,  should  we  not 
expect  physical  miracles  in  droves? 
Those  that  feel  that  we  should  see 
healings  on  every  hand  paint  a  picture 
of  the  New  Testament  as  an  uninter- 
rupted record  of  healings.  But,  that's 
simply  not  true. 

To  the  contrary,  physical  healing 
and  miracles  were  not  the  emphasis 
among  the  early  Christians. 

Since  I  am  in  a  wheelchair,  I  get 


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notes  and  tracts  from  well-meaning 
Christians  who  tell  me  if  I  were  a 
"Spirit-filled  Christian,"  I  would  experi- 
ence a  deliverance  from  my  severe 
limitations. 

Surely  that  simplistic  view  comes 
from  a  jaundiced  reading  of  the  New 
Testament. 

John  the  Baptist  is  described  as 
"filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit"  (Luke  1 :1 5), 
but  the  gospels  tell  us  that  he  died  in 
his  mid-thirties,  brutally  executed  by  a 
cowardly  tyrant.  No  miracle! 

The  First  Christian  martyr,  Stephen, 
died  at  the  hands  of  a  blood-thirsty 
mob.  Described  as  "full  of  the  Holy 
Spirit"  (Acts  6:3),  he  was  not  spared 
by  some  miracle. 

Indeed  the  ironic  touch  is  that  the 
ascended  Christ  is  described  as  a  by- 
stander— neither  rescuing  Stephen 
nor  zapping  his  executioners! 

The  apostle  Paul  is  said  to  have  suf- 
fered from  a  "thorn  in  the  flesh"  and 
relates  in  some  detail  (II  Cor.  12)  how 
he  prayed  earnestly  for  deliverance. 

God's  answer  was  that  the  thorn, 
whatever  it  was,  would  not  be  re- 
moved, but  that  divine  grace  would 
enable  Paul  to  endure  the  affliction. 
That  testimony  would  hardly  qualify  for 
mention  on  a  TV  program. 


Clear  Implication 

Having  pointed  out  those  notable 
examples  of  "Spirit-filled  Christians" 
who  did  not  experience  physical  deli- 
verance from  affliction,  I  must  repeat 
that  the  New  Testament  presents  ex- 
amples of  those  who  were  healed. 

The  problem  then,  is  with  the 
"healers"  who,  wittingly  or  unwittingly, 
leave  the  impression  that  every  true 
Christian  who  is  afflicted  should  ex- 
pect— even  demand — a  physical  heal- 
ing. If  it  does  not  come,  the  implication 
is  clear  that  the  fault  lies  with  the  suf- 
ferer. 

A  fine  Christian  businessman  in 
southern  Manitoba  had  cancer.  Well- 
meaning  friends  persuaded  him  to  go 
some  distance  to  a  highly-touted  faith 
healer. 

Despite  his  serious  condition,  he 
made  the  journey  and  went  through 
the  "healing  line."  Nothing  happened, 
but  he  went  home  with  high  hopes.  As 
his  health  declined,  he  was  under- 
standably mystified. 

He  wrote  to  the  healer  and  received 
a  letter  from  an  assistant.  The  letter 
assured  the  suffering  Christian  that 
the  healer  had  made  no  claims  that  he 


could  heal  everyone.  To  a  degree,  the 
healing  was  dependent  on  the  afflicted 
person's  faith. 

Several  Questions 

What  is  the  implication  in  that  con- 
tention? Is  it  not  that  if  a  Christian  fails 
to  be  healed,  he  is  in  some  way  defi- 
cient in  his  relationship  with  God? 

Would  those  who  hold  their  widely- 
heralded  healing  meetings  be  pre- 
pared to  state  that  clearly — if  indeed 
that  is  what  they  believe? 

I  have  several  questions  that  I  direct 
to  those  proponents  of  "faith  heal- 
ings": 

Are  we  to  assume  that  the  many 
Christians  who  are  not  healed,  al- 
though they  have  sought  it,  are  defi- 
cient in  faith? 

When  a  Christian  has  not  been 
healed,  is  it  right  to  lead  him  on  in  a 
frenzied,  sometimes  neurotic,  search 
for  healing— thereby  robbing  him  of 
the  present  enjoyment  of  God's  pres- 
ence and  power? 

Does  the  emphasis  placed  on  "faith 
healing"  not  often  have  the  effect  of 
crushing  or  embittering  those  who 
have  not  been  healed? 

If  honest  proponents  of  faith  healing 
were  to  tabulate  the  number  of  genu- 
ine healings  and  the  number  of  disillu- 
sioned or  embittered  people  who  are 
not  healed,  they  might  have  sober 
second  thoughts  about  their  empha- 
sis. 

Has  this  vociferous  emphasis  on 
faith  healing  not  overshadowed  the 
fact  that  God's  intervention  in  many 
cases  might  be  in  the  form  of  giving 
grace  and  strength  to  bear  the  afflic- 
tion and  to  demonstrate  thereby  what 
God  can  do  in  a  human  life? 

Finally,  has  this  mania  for  miracles 
not  cheapened  the  gospel?  I  fairly 
shudder  when  a  television  evangelist 
reads  viewers'  letters  that  relate 
"cures."  I  note  that  most  of  the  ail- 
ments cured  are  rather  indefinite — 
"back  trouble",  "respiratory  prob- 
lems", or  "digestive  ailment".  I 
wouldn't  be  surprised  to  hear  that  bun- 
ions have  been  cured. 

Cultic  Mania 

I  am  not  belittling  back  trouble  or  re- 
spiratory problems  or  minimizing  their 
discomfort,  but  is  the  temporary  or 
permanent  relief  of  those  ailments  the 
primary  vindication  of  the  Christian 
gospel? 

My  arguments  and  questions  can 


be  dismissed,  I  suppose,  as  "sour 
grapes".  But  I  am  persuaded  that  I  ex- 
press the  misgivings  and  objections  of 
many  other  Christians  who  feel  that 
this  cultic  mania  for  miracles  distorts 
the  Christian  gospel. 

From  a  wheelchair  I  testify  that  God 
has  not  short-changed  me.  The  mira- 
cle He  has  performed  is  inside.  He 
gives  grace  to  an  addicted  activist  to 
live  and  function  with  extensive  paral- 
ysis. 

That  type  of  miracle  is  not  sensa- 
tional, wouldn't  collect  a  crowd,  or 
bring  in  funds. 

Nonetheless,  it  is  the  type  of  miracle 
that  God  can  work  for  many  who  are 
embittered  or  perplexed  because  they 
have  not  experienced  the  flashy  heal- 
ings promised  by  healers. 

Since  trust  in  God  is  at  the  heart  of 
the  gospel,  the  Christian  is  called  to 
exercise  that  trust  with  no  strings  at- 
tached. 

Physical  healing  is,  I  repeat,  a  pos- 
sibility, but  the  Christian's  attitude  is: 
Healed  or  not,  I  trust! 


'Rev.  Leslie  K.  Tarr  is  professor  of  communications  at  Central 
Baptist  Seminary  and  well-known  Canadian  icumalist 

(Reprinted  with  permission 
from  The  Toronto  Star) 


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Seminary 

NEWS 


CHRISTIAN  PSYCHOTHERAPY 


David  G.  Benner,  Ph.D.* 


The  recent  proliferation  of  systems  of 
counselling  and  psychotherapy  quali- 
fying themselves  with  the  adjective 
"Christian"  is  a  phenomenon  that  is 
being  viewed  with  mixed  feelings  by 
the  Christian  community.  Some  feel 
that  any  attempt  at  a  marriage  be- 
tween psychotherapy  and  Christianity 
is  entirely  inappropriate.  Others  feel 
encouraged  by  such  integrative  ef- 
forts. 

The  present  article  is  not  a  defense 
of  such  an  integration  as  the  need 
and  value  of  this  is  assumed.  Nor  is  it 
an  argument  for  any  one  system  of 
counselling  or  psychotherapy  as 
being  the  Christian  system.  Rather,  it 
is  a  consideration  of  what  it  means  to 
speak  of  "Christian  psychotherapy".^ 
How  is  it  different  from  any  other  psy- 
chotherapy? And,  in  what  ways  is  it 
the  same?  What  are  the  essential 
components  of  any  therapy  that 
would  properly  be  called  Christian 
therapy?  To  answer  these  questions, 
five  parameters  of  Christian  psycho- 
therapy will  be  examined:  theory, 
goals,  techniques,  the  role  of  Scrip- 
tures, and  the  role  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

THEORETICAL  CONSIDERATIONS 

The  question  with  regard  to  theory 
is  whether  or  not  we  have,  or  should 
expect  to  find,  a  unique  Biblical 
theory  of  personality  or  psychother- 
apy? My  answer  is  that  we  are  asking 
the  wrong  questions  of  Scriptures 
when  we  attempt  to  find  in  them  such 
a  Christian  theory  of  psychotherapy. 


*  Dr.  Benner  is  Director  of  Counselling  Services  and  a  Profes- 
sor of  Pastoral  Counselling  at  O  T S  and  OB  C.  He  also 
maintains  a  part-time  private  practice  of  psychottierapy 

1.  Ttie  terms  psychotherapy  and  counselling  are  used  inter- 
changeably in  this  article  as  the  comments  are  applicable 
to  both  Chnstian  psychotherapy  is  not  identical  however, 
with  pastoral  counselling  which,  because  of  the  context 
(usually  a  church)  and  the  symbols  and  expectations  asso- 
ciated with  the  clergy,  is  somewhat  different 


David  G.  Benner 


Addressing  the  same  question,  Berk- 
houwer  (1962)  suggests  that  the  gen- 
eral judgment  of  theologians  has 
been  that  Scriptures  do  not  provide 
an  overall  scientific  model  of  man.  He 
continues: 

"There  have  been  constant  at- 
tempts, in  this  connection,  to 
search  through  the  Biblical  con- 
ceptual material  bearing  on  man  in 
order  to  introduce  system,  and  to 
deduce  a  clear-cut  anthropology 
and  psychology.  But  these  at- 
tempts have  only  made  clear  that 
because  of  the  great  variety  of 
concepts  used  in  the  Bible,  it  is  not 
possible  to  synthesize  them  into  a 
systematic  Biblical  anthropology  in 
which  the  structure  and  compo- 
sition of  man  would  be  made 
clear .  .  . 
"It  is  obviously  not  the  intention 


RECENT  PUBLICATIONS 
ON  PASTORAL 
COUNSELING 

Two  books  in  the  Creative  Pastoral 
Care  and  Counseling  Series  of  For- 
tress Press  are  worthy  of  note.  Growth 
Counseling  for  l^id-Years  Couples  by 
Howard  J.  Clinebell,  Jr.  is  an  excellent 
and  very  practical  resource  for  both 
couples  in  the  age  range  of  40-65  and 
those  involved  in  a  counseling  ministry 
with  such  couples.  Theology  and  Pas- 
toral Care  by  John  B.  Cobb,  Jr.,  pres- 
ents aspects  of  contemporary  theol- 
ogy which  are  relevant  to  pastoral 
care.  His  considerations  are  interest- 
ing but  are  seriously  weakened  in  their 
usefulness  to  the  evangelical  by  his 
doctrine  of  God  which  trades  off  tran- 
scendence for  immanence. 

Reviewed  by  D.  G.  Benner 

(Dr.  Benner  is  presently  teaching  a 
course  in  the  Monday  program  of  the 
Seminary  which  is  part  of  the  Continu- 
ing Education  program  for  full-time 
workers.  He  holds  the  Ph.D.  degree 
from  York  University  and  is  a  Regis- 
tered Psychologist  in  the  Province  of 
Ontario.) 


of  the  divine  revelation  to  give  us 
exact  information   about  man   in 
himself  and  thus  to  anticipate  what 
later  scientific    research   on   man 
offers.  The  Scriptural  anthropologi- 
cal concepts   which   vary  so  ex- 
tremely never  occur  in  a  context 
which  is  concerned  with  the  com- 
position of  man  as  such,  in  himself 
God's  revelation  directs  our  glance 
towards  man  in  his  totality,  in  his 
relation  to  God"  (p.  199). 
Expecting  Scriptures  to  provide  a 
comprehensive  theory  of  personality 
or  psychotherapy  leads  to  distortions 
of  what  they  do  teach  about  man.  For 
example,  the  frequent  Scriptural  refer- 
ences to  "parts"  of  man  (i.e.,  heart, 
soul,  spirit,  mind,  etc.)  are  often  taken 
as  components   of  personality,   and 
theories    of   personality    are    built 
around  these  components.  It  is  most 
important,  however,  in  this  regard  to 
realize  that  the  intention  of  the  Bibli- 
cal  authors   was    never  to   analyse 
man,  but  rather  to  characterize  him. 
The  "parts"  were  not  meant  to  be  in- 
terpreted analytically.  They  must  be 
understood  as  characteristics  and  not 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


SEMINARY  NEWS 

as  component  parts. 

The  Biblical  view  of  man  presents 
his  diversity  but  always  in  the  context 
of  a  unified  whole.  This  means  that  no 
problem  is  strictly  psychological  or 
purely  spiritual.  The  Christian  psy- 
chotherapist does  not,  therefore,  have 
the  option  of  ignoring  spiritual  issues 
because  they  are  perceived  to  be  out- 
side the  psychological  sphere.  No 
such  division  is  Biblically  defensible. 
Commitment  to  man  as  unity  means 
that  his  relationship  to  God,  the  fact  of 
sin,  moral  guilt,  forgiveness  and  other 
spiritual  aspects  of  human  functioning 
are  all  a  part  of  what  the  Christian  psy- 
chotherapist considers  important  and 
therefore  part  of  what  must  be  consid- 
ered. They  may  or  may  not  be  expli- 
citly discussed.  However,  the  Chris- 
tian's understanding  of  man  cannot  let 
him  ignore  these  important  aspects, 
and  if  the  problem  is  primarily  in  one  of 
these  areas,  then  the  Christian  psy- 
chotherapist will  address  it. 


GOALS 

How,  then,  does  a  Biblical  view  of 
man  affect  the  goals  of  psychother- 
apy and  what  goals  should  give  direc- 
tion to  Christian  psychotherapy?  I 
would  suggest  the  two  major  goals  of 
psychotherapy  to  be  the  reduction  of 
symptomatology  and  the  promotion  of 
personal  growth.  This  dichotomization 
focuses  on  the  goal  of  most  concern 
to  the  person  seeking  psychotherapy 
(the  reduction  of  symptomatology 
with  its  attendant  pain  and  distress) 
and  that  of  more  ultimate  concern  to 
the  psychotherapist  (the  promotion  of 
personal  or  psychological  growth). 
The  fact  is  that  the  majority  of  per- 
sons seeking  psychotherapy  do  so  for 
symptom  relief  and  not  the  broader 
issues  of  psychological  growth.  More 
ultimate  questions  of  wholeness  re- 
main of  considerable  importance 
theoretically,  but  less  often  play  a  sig- 
nificant role  in  actual  practice. 

This  is  of  particular  relevance  in 
considering  the  spiritual  aspect  of 
man's  functioning.  No  Christian  would 
dispute  that  wholeness  is  impossible 
apart  from  a  right  relationship  to  God. 
However,  I  also  must  deal  with  the 
fact  already  stated,  that  few  people 
come  to  psychotherapy  seeking 
wholeness.  For  those  Christians  or 
non-Christians  who  are  prepared  to 
look  beyond  the  reduction  of  sympto- 
matology to  ways  of  movinn  towards 


greater  wholeness,  spiritual  issues 
will  translate  into  appropriate  goals.  I 
personally,  however,  am  prepared  to 
accept  more  limited  goals  and  work 
with  persons  whose  perception  of 
need  is  more  immediate  and  less  ulti- 
mate. 

Christ's  own  ministry  clearly  demon- 
strates that  ultimate  concerns  do  not 
need  to  be  a  part  of  every  helping  con- 
text. The  parable  of  the  Good  Samari- 
tan and  the  frequent  healings  which 
occurred  apart  from  an  explicit  verbal 
proclamation  of  the  gospel  show 
Christ's  concern  to  meet  people  at 
their  point  of  need.  His  ministry  was 
not  always  in  ultimate  dimensions,  al- 
though He  never  lost  sight  of  what 
those  ultimate  dimensions  were. 

The  ultimate  goal  of  Christian  psy- 
chotherapy is  clearly  the  wholeness  of 
the  person,  thus  involving  his  relation- 
ship with  God,  self,  and  others.  I  see, 
however,  no  reason  to  differentiate 
between  Christians  and  non-Chris- 
tians in  goal-setting.  The  same  ulti- 
mate goal  is  appropriate  for  both,  and 
the  other  goals  will  be  based  on  the 
uniqueness  of  the  person's  needs  and 
functioning.  In  my  own  practice,  goals 
are  worked  out  collaboratively.  Some- 
times I  am  able  to  broaden  the  initially 
suggested  goals  and  encourage  the 
person  to  deal  in  more  ultimate  terms. 
When  this  is  not  the  case,  however,  I 
will  still  work  within  the  framework  of 
their  goals  as  long  as  they  are  ethi- 
cally acceptable  and  within  the  realm 
of  my  competence. 


TECHNIQUES 

A  mistake  that  has  too  often  been 
made  in  thinking  about  techniques 
has  been  to  assume  their  depen- 
dence on  the  presuppositional  or  the- 
oretical base  out  of  which  they  devel- 
oped. This  faulty  assumption  has  led 
some  to  needlessly  reject  techniques 
that  have  been  identified  with  a  non- 
Christian  presuppositional  base.  The 
fact  is  that  the  relationship  between 
most  techniques  and  the  theory  with 
which  they  are  primarily  identified  or 
first  developed  is  very  loose  indeed. 
One  has  only  to  note  the  very  diverse 
theoretical  orientations  laying  claim  to 
the  same  techniques  to  see  this  point. 
The  usefulness  of  any  given  tech- 
nique must  be  assessed  by  examin- 
ing it  directly,  not  by  examining  only 
its  theoretical  base.  The  critical  ques- 
tion is  not   "where  did  the  technique 


SEMINARIANS 
EVALUATE  THEIR  YEAR 

"The  close  relationship  between 
faculty  and  students".  "Meeting  Chris- 
tians from  other  denominations". 
"Seeing  God  work  in  meeting  financial 
needs  for  my  family".  "The  compe- 
tence of  the  faculty".  "The  opportunity 
to  work  out  theological  problems  with 
fellow  students".  These  were  but  a 
few  of  the  responses  from  present  stu- 
dents as  they  were  asked  to  evaluate 
their  first  year  at  Ontario  Theological 
Seminary  during  a  recent  social  event 
held  in  the  Seminary  building. 

The  year  has  been  one  of  adjust- 
ment for  most  students,  since  many 
left  secure  positions  in  business  and 
teaching  to  come  to  O.T.S.  as  full-time 
students.  God's  grace  has  proved  suf- 
ficient for  their  every  need.  As  this  edi- 
tion of  the  Recorder  is  being  read,  a 
new  group  of  students  will  have  regis- 
tered to  join  last  year's  class.  Pray  for 
each  of  them  as  they  prepare  for  the 
work  of  the  ministry. 

originate?"  but  rather,  "is  it  compati- 
ble with  the  Biblical  view  of  man?" 

When  this  is  done,  I  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  there  are  very  few,  if 
any,  techniques  that  are  inherently 
non-Christian.  Some  I  reject  because 
they  are  morally  inappropriate.  Others 
I  do  not  use  because  of  lack  of  train- 
ing or  exposure  to  them,  or  more 
commonly,  because  they  do  not  fit 
with  who  I  am  and  how  I  best  func- 
tion. In  most  cases  though,  this  has 
nothing  to  do  with  them  being  Chris- 
tian or  non-Christian. 

When  I  consider  seriously  what 
Scriptures  say  to  me  about  tech- 
niques, and  particularly  when  I  look 
closely  at  the  functioning  of  Christ,  I 
see  some  ways  of  responding  which 
go  beyond  our  typical  inflexible  use  of 
techniques.  Carlson  (1976),  in  ana- 
lyzing Jesus'  style  of  relating,  points 
out  the  wide  range  of  approaches 
which  He  so  flexibly  was  able  to  use. 
This  leads  him  to  the  following  con- 
clusion: 

If  we  attempt  to  model  our  coun- 
seling or  relating  after  Jesus'  ex- 
ample, then,  like  Jesus,  we  stiould 
play  a  variety  of  interventive  roles 
as  we  relate  redemptively  to  hurt- 
ing people.  I  submit  that  the  bibli- 
cal view  of  counseling  is  a  multi- 
varied  one.  It  seems  to  me  that  if 
my  analysis  of  Scripture  is  correct, 


SEMINARY  NEWS 

then  it  is  a  mistake  to  claim  one 
style   of  relating   as    distinctively 
Christian  or  biblical.  It  is  a  mistake 
in  at  least  two  ways:  first,  because 
it  is  based  on  selective  reading 
and  interpretation  of  Scripture,  and 
second,  because  it  limits  the  mo- 
bility of  responses   essential  for 
helping  (p.  186). 
The  challenge  is  to  be  a  "personalis- 
tic    psychotherapist",    or,    one    who 
adapts  his  techniques  and  functioning 
to  the  uniqueness  of  each   person. 
This  is  not  to  suggest  that  any  one 
person    can    therapeutically    be    all 
things  to  all  people  or  master  all  psy- 
chotherapeutic   approaches.    It    is, 
however,  a  challenge  to  be  as  flexible 
as  Christ  in  being  to  people  what  they 
need  and  not  simply,  what  we  are 
most  comfortable  with. 


THE  ROLE  OF  SCRIPTURES 

The  most  basic  role  of  Scriptures  in 
relation  to  Christian  psychotherapy  is 
that  they  provide  its  basic  system  of 
authority.  This  means  that  all  the 
basic  data  about  the  nature  of  man, 
the  way  he  should  relate  to  other 
men,  to  his  Creator  and  to  the  cre- 
ation must  be  derived  from  Scripture. 
It  must  be  the  final  court  of  authority 
unto  which  we  bring  all  our  ideas 
about  and  functioning  in  psychother- 
apy in  order  to  allow  judgment  to  be 
passed  on  them. 

But  we  must  be  careful  of  mechani- 
cal use  of  Scriptures  in  psychotherapy 
which  may  do  little  more  than  superfi- 
cially "baptize"  the  process.  I  am 
sometimes  asked  by  Christians  if  I 
"use"  Scripture  in  my  counselling.  The 
question  is,  I  think,  whether  or  not  I 
quote,  refer  to,  or  have  a  Bible  visible 
in  my  sessions.  This  narrow  under- 
standing of  the  use  of  Scriptures  has 
its  place  in  psychotherapy  with  some 
people  at  certain  times.  Am  I  using 
Scripture  any  less  if  I  point  out  that 
harbouring  anger  is  causing  the  prob- 
lems being  experienced  and  that  re- 
sentment must  be  given  up,  than  if  I 
quote  or  read  Ephesians  4:26? 
Whether  I  point  to  the  sin  of  harbour- 
ing anger  by  reading  the  appropriate 
passages  of  Scripture,  by  rational- 
emotive  therapy  techniques,  or  by  one 
of  a  variety  of  other  methods,  I  am 
using  Scripture.  My  view  of  man  and 
my  functioning  in  therapy  are  coming 
under  the  authority  of  Scripture,  and 
this  is  what  is  demanded  of  the  Chris- 
tian psychotherapist. 


THE  ROLE  OF  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT 

Much  has  been  written  on  the  role  of 
Scriptures  in  Christian  psychotherapy, 
but  very  little  consideration  has  been 
given  to  the  role  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  And 
yet  it  is  in  the  consideration  of  the  role 
of  the  Spirit  that  I  think  we  find  what  is 
most  unique  and  most  critical  in  Chris- 
tian psychotherapy.  Let  me,  therefore, 
focus  on  three  roles  of  the  Holy  Spirit: 
His  work  as  Convictor,  Comforter,  and 
Guide.  As  Convictor,  the  Holy  Spirit's 
work  is  to  reprove  us  of  sin  and  bring 
us  to  repentance  (John  16:8-9).  It  is 
not  a  certain  technique  that  convicts 
us  of  sin,  nor  simply  the  reading  of 
Scripture.  It  is  the  Holy  Spirit  and  He  is 
able  to  use  a  variety  of  means  to  do 
the  job.  My  role  is  to  prayerfully  sup- 
port and  anticipate  this  work  of  the 
Spirit  and  to  be  prepared  to  respond  to 
people  as  they  respond  to  repentance. 
It  also  often  involves  helping  them  for- 
give themselves  as  this  is  sometimes 
the  most  difficult  part  of  the  process. 

As  Comforter  (John  14:16)  the  Holy 
Spirit's  role  is  to  come  along  side  of 
us,  supporting,  sustaining,  helping, 
and  healing.  This  is  the  essence  of 
psychotherapy,  and  yet  we  are  told 
that  this  is  one  of  the  roles  of  the  Holy 
Spirit.  To  suddenly  realize  Who  the 
true  Counsellor  is  and  to  enter  a  psy- 
chotherapy relationship  depending  on 
Him  to  do  His  work,  using  us  as  He  is 
pleased  so  to  do,  is  a  tremendous  re- 
lease. It  is  this  assurance  that  lets  me 
sleep  nights.  It  is  this  assurance  that 
keeps  me  from  having  to  be  a 
"rescuer",  from  acting  as  if  it  is  my  re- 
sponsibility to  effect  changes.  Non- 
Christian  therapists  also  attempt  to 
avoid  a  "rescuer"  role,  but  they  are  left 
with  having  to  turn  the  responsibility 
for  change  over  to  the  patient.  I  am  so 
glad  I  can  leave  that  in  the  hands  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  Who  as  Comforter  un- 
dergirds  and  enables  all  growth  and 
healing. 

Closely  related  to  His  role  as  Com- 
forter is  His  role  as  the  One  Who  will 
guide  us  into  all  truth  (John  16:13). 
As  the  Spirit  of  truth,  the  Holy  Spirit 
leads  us  to  Jesus  Who  is  Truth.  Truth 
is  not  just  knowledge  but  must  also 
be  seen  experientially.  As  I  am  led 
towards  truth,  I  grow.  And  this  is  the 
role  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  to  guide  us  in 
our  growth  towards  wholeness — 
towards  Christlikeness.  He  does  this 
in  many  ways.  As  I  pray  before  a  ses- 
sion for  His  guidance,  I  prepare  my- 
self to  be  led  by  Him.  I  then  must 
open  myself  and  be  prepared  to  act 


on  His  leading.  Non-Christian  thera- 
pists would  describe  it  as  trusting 
their  intuition  or  their  experience.  I  am 
calling  it  trusting  the  leading  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  I  also  pray,  and  encour- 
age Christian  patients  to  pray  that  the 
Holy  Spirit  will  reveal  what  they  need 
to  know  of  themselves  to  them — and 
at  a  pace  and  time  that  they  can  han- 
dle. I  encourage  them  to  expect  in- 
sights, memories,  and  ideas  from  the 
Holy  Spirit  which  will  be  significant  in 
the  progress  of  therapy. 

As  I  indicated  earlier,  it  is  here  that 
I  feel  we  come  to  the  essence  of  what 
makes  Christian  psychotherapy  truly 
Christian.  As  we  listen,  contemplate, 
and  intervene  with  a  variety  of  tech- 
niques, we  do  so  with  prayer  that  the 
work  of  our  hands  will  not  be  in  vain, 
but  will  be  confirmed  by  the  work  of 
the  true  Counsellor  (Psalm  90:17). 


CONCLUSION 

Even  as  it  is  easier  to  characterize 
man  than  it  is  to  define  him,  so  too  it  is 
easier  to  characterize  Christian  psy- 
chotherapy than  to  define  it.  The  pres- 
ent discussion  does  not  exhaust  the 
characteristics  of  Christian  psycho- 
therapy, but  does  suggest  a  beginning 
point.  The  essence  would  seem  to  be 
a  Christian  therapist  who  is  con- 
sciously seeking  to  bring  all  his  ideas 
about,  and  functioning  in  therapy 
under  the  authority  of  Scripture,  and 
who  consciously  seeks  the  guidance 
of  the  Holy  Spirit.  It  does  not  seem  that 
a  unique  Christian  theory  of  therapy 
exists  or  is  likely  to  be  developed,  nor 
does  it  seem  that  the  goals  or  tech- 
niques are  inherently  different  from 
those  in  other  forms  of  psychotherapy. 
This  means  that  two  Christian  thera- 
pists can  be  practising  therapy  in  quite 
different  ways,  and  yet  both  may  be 
said  to  be  practising  Christian  psycho- 
therapy. I  realize  that  this  is  not  as 
neat  as  some  may  wish,  but  I  see  no 
basis  for  simplifying  the  present  state 
of  plurality. 


REFERENCES 

Berkhouwer,   G.C.   Man:  the  image  of  God. 

Grand  Rapids:  Eerdmans,  1962. 
Carlson,    D.E.  Jesus'  style   of  relating:   the 

search  for  a  Biblical  view  of  counseling. 

Journal  of  Psychology  and  Theology,  1976. 

4(3),  181-192. 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


SEMINARY  NEWS 


DAVID  MAINS  TO  SPEAK  IN 
CONFERENCE  ON  "THE  CITY" 

OBC  and  OTS  will  host  a  special  one-day  conference  on  November  17,  1977 
which  will  focus  on  evangelical  strategy  in  urban  centres.  David  Mains,  former 
pastor  of  Circle  Church,  Chicago,  and  author  of  the  book,  Full  Circle,  will  be  the 
key  speaker.  Other  Christian  workers  involved  in  urban  ministries  will  be  utilized 
and  related  workshops  will  be  held.  The  conference  is  open  to  the  Christian  pub- 
lic. The  need  for  Biblical  strategy  to  reach  the  city,  as  well  as  principles  of  evan- 
gelical cooperation,  will  be  the  major  emphases.  David  Mains  is  presently  serving 
as  radio  pastor  of  The  Chapel  of  the  Air,  a  radio  ministry  heard  on  a  number  of 
outlets  in  North  America. 


RELATIONAL 
THEOLOGY. 
IS  LOVE  MORE 
IMPORTANT  THAN 
THEOLOGY? 

During  the  late  1960s  while  the 
country  was  hit  with  the  human  poten- 
tial movement,  the  religious  commu- 
nity was  being  hit  with  the  relational 
theology/church  renewal  movement. 
Since  that  time,  relational  theology 
has  developed  many  variations  and 
followers  of  practically  every  theologi- 
cal stripe,  but  its  basic  idea  has  re- 
mained unchanged. 

"In  relational  theology  we  say  em- 
phatically that  the  quality  and  scope 
of  relationships  and  the  ability  and 
willingness  to  relate  are  marks  of  orth- 
odoxy rather  than  doctrine,  ethical 
performance,  or  spiritual  heroism," 
writes  Bruce  Larson  in  the  June  issue 
of  Faith  At  Work. 

"This  concept,  it  seems  to  me,"  he 
goes  on  "is  in  direct  opposition  to  the 
notion  that  orthodoxy  can  be  mea- 
sured by  one's  biblical  knowledge  or 
theological  certainty,  one's  lack  of 
vices,  or  one's  good  works,  with  soul- 
winning  perhaps  the  ultimate  good 
work." 

At  the  same  time,  "the  fact  that 
one's  orthodoxy  is  measured  by  these 
relationships  does  not  eliminate  the 
need  for  sound  doctrine,  for  noble 
ethics,  and  for  acts  of  heroism.  All 
these  are  important.  But  relational  the- 
ology suggests  that  the  primary  bibli- 
cal injunction  is  to  relate  in  love  to 
God,  to  self,  and  to  others  as  the  ulti- 
mate and  authenticating  mark  of  life  in 
Christ. " 

No  one  denies  that  relationships  are 
important,  but  in  elevating  them  above 
theology,  the  relational  school  still 
leaves  one  major  problem  unsolved: 
without  sound  prepositional  theology, 
what  determines  what  constitutes 
love  and  interpersonal  relationship? 
(Evangelical  Newsletter) 


REDATING    THE    NEW 
TESTAMENT 

In  a  recent  publication  some  extre- 
mely conservative  conclusions  have 
come  from  a  less  than  conservative 
writer.  J.  A.  T.  Robinson,  who  wrote 
Honest  to  God  and  more  recently  The 
Human  Face  of  God,  has  now  pro- 
duced a  book  that  dates  the  writing  of 
all  New  Testament  books  prior  to  70 
A.D.  This  is  a  sharp  departure  from 
dates  normally  used  by  non-conserva- 
tives and  conservatives  as  well.  The 
author  feels  that  since  the  destruction 
of  Jerusalem  occurred  in  70  A.D.,  it 
would  have  received  more  attention 
and  made  more  of  a  dent  in  the  New 
Testament  writings  if  they  were  written 
after  that  catastrophe. 

He  thus  places  the  Pastorals  within 
Pauls  lifetime  although  his  recon- 
struction of  Paul's  imprisonment  is  not 
a  normal  one.  The  book  of  Revelation 
is  placed  in  Nero's  reign  (in  the  60's) 
rather  than  Dometian's  (in  the  90's), 
since  he  feels  the  persecution  re- 
flected in  the  Apocalypse  better  fits 
Nero's  time  than  a  later  date.  The 
Gospel  of  John,  usually  placed  in  the 
90's,  is  given  a  date  in  the  50's  by 
Bishop  Robinson. 

This  does  not  mean  that  the  author 
has  become  a  committed  evangelical, 
and  both  conservatives  and  non-con- 
servatives are  bound  to  disagree  with 
some  of  his  data.  The  book,  Redating 
the  New  Testament  (Westminster 
Press,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  $23.75)  along 
with  a  more  popular  paperback.  Can 
We  Trust  the  New  Testament  (Eerd- 
mans  Pub.  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mi, 
$1.95)  will  undoubtedly  be  carefully 
studied  by  all  New  Testament  schol- 
ars in  the  years  ahead. 


SHELF  WEALTH 

WILLIAM  LAW'S 
SERIOUS  CALL 

by  Matthew  Francis 

Un  our  way  to  India  from  England  by 
troopship  during  the  war,  we  stayed 
five  weeks  in  Durban,  South  Africa.  I 
got  to  know  most  of  the  city's  book- 
shops. In  one  I  saw  a  book  my  father 
had  urged  me  to  buy — his  own  copy 
had  been  borrowed  and  never  re- 
turned. This  book  was  William  Law's  A 
Serious  Call  to  a  Devout  and  Holy 
Life. 

Life  on  the  new  transport  was  re- 
laxed, but  where  on  a  crowded  troop- 
ship can  you  find  a  quiet  spot  to  read? 
I  found  it.  I  curled  up  in  the  curves  of 
the  spare  anchor  up  ford.'  There  I 
revelled  in  the  company  of  William 
Law  most  of  each  day. 

Original  Thinker 

William  Law  was  born  in  Northamp- 
tonshire in  1686.  He  was  a  contem- 
porary of  Daniel  Defoe  (1661),  Jon- 
athan Swift  (1667),  Joseph  Addison 
(1672),  Alexander  Pope  (1688)  and 
others.  Most  readers  know  something 
about  the  latter's  books — Robinson 
Crusoe,  Gulliver's  Travels,  The 
Spectator,  The  Essay  on  Man.  But 
few  can  name  any  of  William  Law's 
works,  even  though  his  collected  writ- 
ings comprised  nine  volumes.  Among 
his  books  were,  The  Absolute  Un- 
lawfulness of  the  Stage  Demon- 
strated, A  Practical  Treatise  on 
Christian  Perfection,  and,  of  course, 
A  Serious  Call.  .  .  .  Many  well-read 
people  have  never  read  a  line  of  his. 
This  is  all  the  more  strange  because 
he  was  a  clear  and  original  thinker  as 
well  as  a  racy  writer. 

Law  was  intended  for  the  ministry  of 
the  Church  of  England.  He  entered 
Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge,  in 
1 705,  was  made  a  Fellow  in  1711,  and 
entered  Holy  Orders  the  same  year. 
But  in  1716,  on  conscientious 
grounds,  he  refused  to  take  the  oath  of 
allegiance  to  King  George  I.  The  re- 
fusal cost  him  his  Fellowship  at  Em- 
manuel and  all  hope  for  preferment  in 
the  established  church.  His  action  was 
in  keeping  with  his  principles.  A 
glimpse  of  these  is  given  in  the  eigh- 
teen rules  he  had  laid  down  for  himself 
when  he  entered  the  University.  Here 
are  a  few:  To  avoid  all  idleness.  To 


SEMINARY  NEWS 

avoid  all  excess  in  eating  and  drinking. 
To  call  to  mind  the  presence  of  God 
whenever  I  find  myself  under  any 
temptation  to  sin,  and  to  have  immedi- 
ate recourse  to  prayer.  To  think  hu- 
mbly of  myself  and  to  think  with  great 
charity  of  all  others.  To  forbear  all  evil 
speaking.  To  pray  privately  three 
times  a  day  besides  my  morning  and 
evening  devotions  .  .  .' 

One  could  well  expect  a  person  with 
such  rules  for  living  to  become  a  prig. 
Law  was  not.  He  had  a  deep  concern 
for  the  physical  well-being  of  others, 
as  well  as  for  their  spiritual.  Although 
in  many  ways  a  mystic,  he  was  suffi- 
ciently down  to  earth  to  see  to  those  in 
need. 


Practical  Christianity 

For  example,  Law  preached  gener- 
osity. He  urged  consideration  for 
others.  He  had  said  that  if  he  ever  be- 
came rich  he  would  do  something  tan- 
gible for  the  needy.  Unexpectedly,  an 
opportunity  came  his  way.  He  was 
standing  one  day  outside  his  pub- 
lisher's shop  in  Paternoster  Row,  Lon- 
don. A  young  man,  dressed  as  a  gen- 
tleman's servant'  came  to  him  and 
asked  if  he  were  Mr.  Law.  On  being  re- 
assured, the  young  man  put  a  letter 
into  Law's  hands.  He  opened  it — ^to 
find  a  bank-note  for  £  1000.  No  name. 
No  message.  Just  the  bank-note.  And 
by  the  time  Law  looked  up,  the  mes- 
senger had  gone. 

The  very  next  morning,  William  Law 
took  the  first  coach  to  his  birthplace. 
King's  Cliffe,  to  make  arrangements 
for  the  building  and  endowment  of  a 
residential  school  for  fourteen  girls 
from  poor  homes.  Later  in  life,  he  lived 
frugally  so  that  the  profits  from  his  writ- 
ings could  be  used  for  the  poor.  In  this 
he  was  joined  by  two  others,  and  be- 
tween them  they  built  schools  for  or- 
phaned boys  and  girls.  They  built  a 
'Sunset  Home'  for  the  elderly.  And  for 
one  hour  every  morning,  Law's  study 
window  would  be  open  so  that  those  in 
need  could  be  helped  financially.  Be- 
cause of  such  generous  help,  Law  got 
into  difficulties  with  his  rector! 

Such  a  man  deserves  a  hearing:  he 
deserves  it  as  a  controversialist.  He 
argued  lucidly  against  the  popular  the- 
ological theories  of  his  day.  Law  de- 
serves to  be  heard  as  a  philanthropist, 
and  as  a  devout  Christian.  He  reaches 
his  greatest  heights  when  writing  on 
prayer,  on  true  Christian  faith  and  ac- 
tion, and  on  a  real  love  toward  God. 


Influenced  Wesley  and  Whitefield 

This  is  virtually  the  theme  of  his 
Serious  Call.  .  .  .  The  book  was  first 
published  in  1728.  It  influenced  John 
and  Charles  Wesley.  George  White- 
field  confessed.  By  it  God  worked 
powerfully  upon  my  soul.'  Dr.  Samuel 
Johnson  admitted,  'I  found  Law  quite 
an  overmatch  for  me,  and  this  was  the 
first  occasion  of  my  thinking  in  earnest 
of  religion.' 

In  A  Serious  Call  to  a  Devout  and 
Holy  Life,  Law  first  defines  his  terms. 
Devotion,'  he  says  in  his  opening 
paragraph,  signifies  a  life  given  or  de- 
voted to  God.  .  .  .  He,  therefore,  is  the 
devout  man  who  lives  no  longer  to  his 
own  will  or  the  way  and  spirit  of  the 
world,  but  to  the  sole  will  of  God;  who 
considers  God  in  everything.  .  .  .' 

Law  was  not  content  with  general- 
ities. He  underlines.  In  speaking  about 
prayer  he  is  surgical  when  he  says. 
For  any  ways  of  life,  any  employment 
of  our  talents,  whether  of  our  selves, 
our  time,  or  money,  that  is  not  strictly 
according  to  the  will  of  God  .  .  .  (these 
are)  ...  as  great  absurdities  and  fail- 
ings, as  prayers  that  are  not  according 
to  the  will  of  God.  What  does  Law 
mean?  Just  this:  for  prayer  to  be 
prayer,  then  the  whole  of  one's  life 
must  tally  with  our  claim  to  being  a 
Christian. 

William  Law  does  not  leave  the 
reader  with  such  a  tough  line  without 
giving  as  well  the  secret  behind  such 
Christ-like  living.  He  emphasises 
God's  help  to  live  that  life  day  by  day. 
Nor  does  Law  see  any  of  this  as  a 
dour,  sober  life.  'When  you  read  the 
Scriptures,'  he  states,  you  see  a  re- 
ligion that  is  all  life,  and  spirit,  and  joy, 
in  God  ...  all  is  reality,  life  and  ac- 
tion.' 

Some  may  object  that  such  a  tough 
line  will  produce  bigots.  Law  foresaw 
this  possible  objection.  In  his  final 
paragraph  he  answers.  All  worldly  at- 
tainments, whether  of  greatness,  wis- 
dom or  bravery,  are  empty  sounds; 
and  there  is  nothing  wise  or  great  or 
noble  in  a  human  spirit,  but  rightly  to 
know  and  heartily  worship  and  adore 
the  great  God,  that  is  the  support  and 
life  of  all  spirits,  whether  in  heaven  or 
on  earth.' 

There  is  both  severity  and  grace  in 
Law. 


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Dr.  Martin  E.  Marty,  professor  of  mod- 
ern church  history  at  the  University  of 
Chicago  Divinity  School,  and  a  liberal 
protagonist,  has  written  a  potent  arti- 
cle entitled 

"AN  OUTSIDER  ASSESSES 

THE  EVANGELICAL 

MOVEMENT." 

Among  other  observations,  he  wrote: 

Worldliness 

"Today's  evangelicals  have  new 
problems  with  worldliness.  On  this 
point  I  am  less  sure  of  myself,  be- 
cause subjective  and  even  esthetic 
judgments  come  into  play.  One  can 
only  express  fraternal  concern  when  a 
community  once  marked  by  'the  cost 
of  discipleship'  offers  religion  as  sub- 
stance without  meaning,  and  glory 
without  the  cross. 

"Popular  evangelicalism,  like  other 
groups  in  town,  advertises  itself  as  the 
great  agent  of  abundant  life,'  meaning 
more  money,  more  friends,  more  pop- 
ularity, bigger  churches,  instant  gratifi- 
cation, more  glamour.  Its  heroes  are 
rock  stars,  celebrities,  jocks,  pols,  big- 
gies, but  almost  never  people  with  un- 
mastered  problems  or  dragging 
crosses.  From  what  world  and  to  what 
world  is  today's  born  again'  youth 
called?  Name  one  thing  he  or  she 
gives  up.  Pornography,  maybe;  liquor, 
maybe.  But  who  is  tempted  to  them, 
when  all  the  other  goodies  are  avail- 
able? 

"Yes,  the  gospel  does  offer  shalom, 
well-being,  wholeness,  health.  We  all 
rightfully  cherish  and  seek  these.  But 
today's  success-evangelicalism  is  for- 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


SEMINARY  NEWS 

getting  the  dark  underside  of  life  tfiat 
its  ancestors  addressed  so  well.  The 
day  Cometh  when  that  other  side  has 
to  be  addressed  again.  Evangelical- 
ism has  been  swinging  with  the  Zeit- 
geist, and  the  Zeitgeist  is  fickle. 

"A  Weak  Worldview 

"Today's  evangelicalism,  when  it  is 
nothing  but  evangelistic,  is  unbiblical 
about  the  rest  of  life.  Where  is  Cyrus  in 
its  scheme?  Where  is  Cornelius?  How 
does  God  work  in  the  world  beyond 
conversion?  One  hears  little.  Instead 
there  is  a  kind  of  swaggering,  self-ob- 
sessed 'How'm  I  doin'  God?'  kind  of 
reductionism. 

"Note  that  nothing  about  evangeli- 
calism's historic  problems  with  the  so- 
cial or  public  sphere  was  included  in 
this  analysis.  The  reason  is  simple:  I 
am  impressed  by  the  way  responsible 
evangelicals  are  struggling  with  this 
ever-changing  issue  in  a  day  when  the 
'mainline'  certainly  has  nothing  more 
and  often  has  much  less  to  offer.  I  am 
not  optimistic,  but  I  am  hopeful  that  out 
of  the  ferment  in  evangelicalism  there 
will  come  fresh  ways  to  address  the 
corporate  life. 

"Christianity  better  reckoned  with  it 
until  modernity  came  along  to  chop  life 
up  and  all  Christians  (primarily  evan- 
gelicals) for  decades  bought  the  idea 
that  our  message  dealt  with  only  a  lit- 
tle part  of  life.  No  one  knows  what  the 
new  formula  will  be,  but  we  expect 
something  to  come  forth  and  look  for- 
ward to  a  risk-taking  faith  among  peo- 
ple who  experience  the  power  of  the 
Word  of  God  and  the  impulse  of  Christ 
and  His  spirit." 

We  can  criticize  Dr.  fVlarty,  but  what 
he  says  needs  investigation. 

If  you  want  to  read  the  rest  of  the  ar- 
ticle, write  Evangelical  Newsletter, 
1716  Spruce  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
19103,  and  ask  for  Newsletter  Vol.  IV, 
No.  11,  June  3,  1977. 


Rev.  E.  L.  Simmonds  lectures  on  the 
Book  of  Joshua 


SECOND  CREDIT 

SUMMER  SCHOOL 

A  GREAT  SUCCESS 

Under  the  direction  of  O.B.C./ 
O.T.S.,  the  second  full  Summer 
School  (Bible  College  &  Seminary  Di- 
visions) proved  very  successful. 

Some  students  were  able  to  make 
up  needed  and  helpful  credits.  Pastors 
and  Christian  workers  updated  their 
skills  and  accumulated  credits  toward 
another  degree.  A  total  of  110  regis- 
trations for  the  6  courses  offered  was 
better  than  anticipated. 

Using  our  own  faculty,  plus  Dr.  Gil- 
bert Peterson  of  Trinity  Evangelical  Di- 
vinity School  and  Rev.  William 
McRae,  pastor  of  North  Park  Commu- 
nity Chapel  in  London,  Ont.,  the  Sum- 
mer School  offered  a  variety  of  Bible 
Studies  (1  Corinthians),  Greek,  Theol- 
ogy of  Paul,  Church  Management, 
Prophecy  and  Church  History. 

Those  who  shared  these  4  weeks  of 
study  testified  to  the  value  and  help  re- 
ceived. It  will  doubtless  continue  to 
grow  in  numbers  and  value  in  the 
coming  years. 

The  Seminary  hopes  to  expand  its 


summer  offerings  in  1978  by  adding 
two  weeks  of  courses  in  July  to  enable 
those  in  professional  careers — teach- 
ing, medicine,  business,  etc.  to  be- 
come better  grounded  in  Biblical  truth 
and  to  better  relate  their  faith  to  their 
professions.  With  a  new  air-condi- 
tioned classroom  building  and  spa- 
cious dormitory  facilities,  the 
OBC/OTS  campus  provides  an  attrac- 
tive setting  for  summer  studies. 


Summer  School  Students  share  in- 
sights. 


Rev.  Brian  Roe,  the  Greek  prof. 


Summer  School  Class 


Dr.  Gilbert  Peterson  of  Trinity  Evan- 
gelical Divinity  School,  guest  lec- 
turer. 


Dr.  D.  Leggett  lectured  on  prophecy. 


Rev.  G.  Taylor,  teaching  a  course  in 
Interpersonal  Skills  in  t\Ainistry  and 
Witness 


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In  cooperation  with  Georgian  College  of  Barrie,  Ontario  Bible  College  will  be  offering  two  evening 
courses  in  the  1977-78  session  in  the  Bangle  area. 

UNDERSTANDING  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT— D.  Leggett,  Ph.D. 
Thursdays,  September  29-November  3 

KNOW  WHY  YOU  BELIEVE^J.  Franklin,  MA. 
Dates  and  times  to  be  announced. 

All  sessions  to  be  held  at  the  Georgian  College  Campus  in  Barrie. 

For  further  information  contact  today: 


Georgian  College 
401  Duckworth 
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Evening  School  Class  at  work 


EVENING  SCHOOL 

STUDENT  PROFILE 

Who  attends  Evening  School  at  On- 
tario Bible  College?  Well  over  the 
years  hundreds  of  people  from  almost 
as  many  life  situations,  have  come 
and  studied  and  gone  out  to  serve  the 
Lord.  In  the  past  year  some  260  stu- 
dents came  to  one  of  our  two  cam- 
puses to  learn  more  about  God's 
Word  and  prepare  themselves  for  bet- 
ter service  for  Him.  We'd  like  to  intro- 
duce you  to  a  few  of  them. 

Neil  and  Maureen  Bullock  from 
Don  Mills,  Ontario  are  active  Chris- 
tians at  West  Ellesmere  United 
Church.  Their  pastor  notes  that  they 
are  keenly  interested  in  the  discipling 
of  new  Christians.  Part  of  their  heavy 
schedule  includes  spending  three 
hours  a  week  taking  a  credit  course  at 
O.B.C.  together.  In  less  than  two 
years  they  have  almost  completed 
one  semester  of  regular  course  work. 

Harold  Jackman  is  the  tenants' 
manager  at  Regent  Park  Housing  De- 
velopment in  Toronto,  as  well  as  a 
pastor  in  the  British  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Conference  of  Canada  in  Brant- 
ford.  Recently  his  denomination  en- 
couraged him  to  take  some  formal 
training.  In  January,  1977,  he  began  a 
course  of  study  in  the  Evening 
School. 

Alex  Parachin  is  a  communications 
technician  and  an  active  member  of 
the  Free  Methodist  Church.  Several 
years  ago  he  felt  God's  call  to  the  min- 
istry. With  family  responsibilities  (a 
wife  and  two  children)  daytime  training 
was  a  problem.  He  applied  to  O.B.C. 
and  was  accepted  as  a  regular  stu- 
dent in  the  Bachelor  of  Religious  Edu- 
cation degree  program.  He  is  now  tak- 
ing courses  toward  his  degree  in  the 
Evening  School. 

Elmer  Winterbottom  is  an  architect 
and  an  active  layman  in  the  United 

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ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


Church.  Feeling  the  need  to  upgrade 
his  general  Bible  knowledge,  he 
enrolled  in  the  six-week  course  with 
Rev.  E.  L  Simmonds  several  years 
ago.  Each  year  he  takes  at  least  one 
course  to  improve  his  knowledge  of 
God's  Word. 

Carol  Smitherman,  a  secretary,  is 
a  member  of  Downsview  Baptist 
Church.  Although  she  has  been  a 
Christian  for  many  years,  only  two 
years  ago  she  too  felt  the  need  of 
more  serious  Bible  study.  This  she  is 
doing  at  O.B.C.  Evening  School. 

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  pieces 
(human  type!)  that  make  up  the  whole 
mosaic  that  is  Ontario  Bible  College 
Evening  School.  In  the  years  ahead 
we  look  fonward  to  seeing  many  of  you 
find  your  place  in  the  pattern.  And  find 
the  place  that  O.B.C.  Evening  School 
has  in  God's  pattern  for  your  life.  Con- 
sider Evening  School  as  a  part  of  your 
plans  for  this  fall. 


LAWS  SHOULD 
DISCOURAGE 
HOMOSEXUALITY, 
ENCOURAGE  MORE 
HUMAN  LIFESTYLES 

When  Anita  Bryant  began  to  chal- 
lenge a  pro-gay  ordinance  in  Miami, 
she  touched  off  a  loaded  issue  bound 
to  develop  in  other  parts  of  the 
country.  According  to  columnist 
George  Will  in  Newsweek  (May  30), 
the  ordinance  and  others  like  it  are 


part  of  the  moral  disarmament  of  soci- 
ety. 

"Once  they  establish  society's  offi- 
cial indifference  to  homosexuality,  so- 
ciety will  be  hard  put  to  find  grounds 
for  denying  homosexuals  the  right  to 
marry.  Next  will  come  the  right  of  ho- 
mosexuals to  adopt  children,  to  have 
homosexuals  'fairly  represented'  as 
an  'alternative  lifestyle'  in  every  child's 
sex-education  classes,  and  in  litera- 
ture in  public  libraries." 

He  warns  that  because  homosexua- 
lity is  an  injury  to  health  functioning 
and  a  distortion  of  personality,  the 
grounds  for  believing  that  it  is  a  so- 
cially acquired  inclination  are  reasons 
for  prudence. 

In  opposing  the  ordinance.  Will  be- 
lieves that  a  function  of  law  is  to  direct 
people  toward  more  human  ways  of 
living,  to  shore  up  what  the  community 
considers  essential  values.  "That 
there  are  no  essential  values,  or  none 
that  is  any  of  the  law's  business,  is  as 
absurd  as  the  idea  of  a  polity  with  no 
notion  of  'the  public  good.'  True,  a  lib- 
eral society  concerns  itself  with  a  min- 
imum of  essentials,  but  surely  healthy 
sexuality  is  one;  the  family,  and  hence 
much  else,  depends  on  it." 

He  concludes:  "A  society  swept 
away  by  the  trendy  thought  that  'liber- 
ation' from  'mere'  conventions  is  an  in- 
herent good,  soon  finds  that  its  values 
have  been  reduced  to  desiccated  con- 
cepts like  'change'  and  'free  choice  of 
life-styles.' "  And  in  such  society 
"many  people  want  a  few  rocks  to 
cling  to  in  the  riptide  that  washes 


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away  old  moral  moorings.  " 

(Evangelical  Newsletter) 

The  above  news  item  is  one  of  the 
sanest  we  have  seen  on  a  very  thorny 
issue.  The  surprise  is  that  few  Chris- 
tian voices  have  expressed  a  cogent 
and  Biblical  view  of  a  life-style  con- 
demned in  both  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments. But  it  is  the  sin  and  not  the  sin- 
ner that  is  judged.  As  someone  has 
clearly  said  in  regard  to  the  issue,  we 
must  differentiate  between  "THE 
CONDITION  OF  HOMOSEXUALITY" 
and  "THE  PRACTICE  OF  HOMO- 
SEXUALITY." The  condition  must  be 
understood  and  treated.  The  practice 
must  be  condemned  and,  where  poss- 
ible, eradicated  or  forbidden. 

Sexuality  is  a  normal  human  condi- 
tion. God  built  it  into  the  physical 
frame,  and  common  with  all  His  cre- 
ation, declared  it  good.  But  the  perver- 
sion of  it,  either  heterosexuality,  bi- 
sexuality  or  homosexuality  or  any 
other  deviation  or  abuse  of  it,  is 
against  God's  commands.  Let  the 
church  declare  for  and  stand  on  Bibli- 
cal sexuality,  and  a  lot  of  the  non- 
sense and  shallow  concepts  written  or 
portrayed  today  would  be  given  a  mor- 
tal blow. 

I  NEEDED  THE  QUIET 

I  needed  the  quiet  so  He  drew  me 

aside, 
Into  the  shadows  where  we  could 

confide. 
Away  from  the  bustle  where  all  the 

day  long 
I  hurried  and  worried  when  active  and 

strong. 

I  needed  the  quiet,  tho  at  first  I 

rebelled. 
But  gently,  so  gently,  my  cross  He 

upheld 
And  whispered  so  sweetly  of  spiritual 

things, 
Tho  weakened  in  body,  my  spirit  took 

wings 
To  heights  never  dreamed  of  when 

active  and  gay. 
He  loved  me  so  greatly  He  drew  me 

away. 

I  needed  the  quiet.  No  prison  my  bed. 
But  a  beautiful  valley  of  blessings 

instead — 
A  place  to  grow  richer,  in  Jesus  to 

hide. 
I  needed  the  quiet  so  He  drew  me 

aside. 

by  Alice  Hansche  Mortenson 


16 


THE  MISSING  INGREDIENT  IN  PRAYER 


Hrayer  is  not,  as  someone  has  writ- 
ten, simply  "Asking  and  Receiving." 
But  most  prayers  and  nearly  all  prayer 
meetings  are  usually  just  that.  Asking 
God  to  give  or  do  something  that  is  ur- 
gently needed  or  selfishly  desired. 
There  is  an  irreverent  rush  into  the 
presence  of  God  "the  high  and  holy 
One  Who  inhabits  eternity,"  the  pre- 
sentation of  the  prayer  "shopping  list," 
and  a  rapid  withdrawal  from  the  Holy 
Presence. 

This  is  prayer? 

Prayer  has  many  parts,  and  petition 
and  request  are  not  necessarily  the 
most  important  ones.  Prayer  is  basi- 
cally two  way  communication,  the  be- 
liever talking  to  his  God,  and  God 
speaking  to  His  child.  Prayer  is  reach- 
ing out  to  lay  hold  of  God  anew,  and 
He  in  turn  placing  a  loving  and  gra- 
cious hand  on  the  seeker.  Prayer  is 
the  upward-breathed  expression  and 
longing  of  the  heart  to  share  some  mo- 
ments with  God. 

Read  the  prayers  of  the  Bible,  when 
man  "began  to  call  upon  the  name  of 
the  Lord."  And  that  divine  record 
shows  that  every  one  who  faithfully 
served  God,  invariably  did  so  through 
the  medium  of,  or  dependency  on, 
prayer.  Sometimes  there  was  the  full 
expression  of  prayer,  with  all  the  awe- 
some sense  of  the  wonder,  glory, 
power  and  holiness  of  God.  Some- 
times it  was  in  the  silence  of  wonder 
and  meditation. 

But  always  it  was  with  the  realiza- 
tion of  the  glory  and  the  majesty  of 
God  Himself. 

Read  Solomon's  prayer  at  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  temple.  Or  Isaiah's  bro- 
kenhearted response  to  the  vision  of 
the  holiness  of  God.  Or  read  the 
Psalms  quietly  and  meditatively  for  a 
glimpse  of  the  true  ingredients  of 
prayer. 

Get  on  your  knees  and  read  slowly 
and  carefully  John  17  for  an  example 
of  our  Lord's  prayer. 

God  is  not  "the  man  up  there."  He  is 
not  a  heavenly  Santa  Claus,  a  benign 
philanthropist  who  has  a  bag  of 
"goodies"  to  be  showered  on  anyone 
who  asks. 

He  is  God!  He  must  be  approached 
in  reverence  and  worshipful  awe.  The 
words  of  adoration  and  praise  must 
come  easily  from  the  heart  to  the  lips. 
Confession  and  contrition  should  fol- 
low. And  then  we  can  make  our  peti- 


tions known  unto  God. 

Prayer  is  the  least  taught  of  all  the 
graces.  It  is  the  most  undisciplined  of 
all  our  acts  of  worship.  And  yet  prayer 
is  the  greatest,  the  most  important 
function  of  the  developing,  growing 
believer's  life.  We  study  and  train  to 
speak,  to  sing,  to  play  instruments,  to 
organize  church  life,  to  conduct  funer- 
als and  weddings  and  all  the  functions 
of  the  Christian  community.  Yet  there 
are  no  lessons  on  prayer.  No  helps  in 
coming  before  the  throne  of  Grace  to 
find  grace  to  help  in  our  time  of  need. 

It  is  important  that  prayer  be  con- 
stant, daily.  The  famous  pianist  Pa- 
derewski  once  explained  that  he  prac- 
tised faithfully  every  day.  "If  I  miss  one 
day's  practice,"  said  he,  'I  notice  it.  If  I 
miss  two  days,  the  critics  notice  it.  If  I 
miss  three  days,  the  audience  notices 
it."  So  when  we  miss  daily  devotions, 
our  spiritual  skills  become  dull,  our 
perception  is  dim  and  our  power  is  les- 
sened. 

Prayer  is  not  academic.  It  does  not 
need  flowing  language  or  elaborate 
textbooks.  But  it  does  require  a  true 
realization  of  all  that  is  involved  in 
praying  to  God.  It  must  mean  a  grow- 
ing sense  of  His  glory,  His  majesty, 
His  power.  His  will. 

Then  we  will  indeed  be  praying. 
Mrs.  J.  Goforth  has  written: 

"The  greatest  hardship  of  the  mis- 


sionary's life,  is  not  the  strange  food 
he  eats,  nor  the  house  he  lives,  in,  nor 
the  trying  climate,  nor  the  lack  of  mod- 
ern conveniences.  Not  even  the 
homesickness  and  the  loneliness  of 
separation  from  congenial  friends  and 
loved  ones.  The  greatest  hardship  in 
the  missionary's  life,  and  the  thing 
which  drives  many  defeated  from  the 
field,  is  the  combat  against  the  powers 
of  darkness.  If  the  missionary  is  left 
without  sufficient  aid  in  prayer,  he  suf- 
fers. Some  brave  lives  have  even 
gone  down  into  terrible  defeat  and  out- 
broken sin  because  the  powers  ar- 
rayed against  him  have  been  over- 
powering and  overwhelming." 

If  you  hunger  for  a  deeper  prayer 
life,  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  PRAY.  If 
you  would  like  some  helps  in  prayer, 
some  of  these  books  might  open  win- 
dows for  you.  There  are  many  others. 

With  Christ  in  the  School  of  Prayer, 

Andrew  Murray 
Quiet  Talks  on  Prayer,  S.  D.  Gordon 
The  Power  of  Prayer,  R.  A.  Torrey 
Essays  on  Prayer,  A.  W.  Tozer  and 

others 
Answers  to  Prayer  (from  G.  Muller's 

Narratives),    compiled   by   A.E.C. 

Brooks 
All  the  Prayers  of  the  Bible,  H.  Lock- 

yer 
The   Secret    of   Communion   with 

God,  Matthew  Henry 
The   Practice  of  the   Presence  of 

God,  Brother  Lawrence 


OBC/OTS  LADIES'  AUXILIARY 
NEEDS  MORE  MEMBERS 

The  Synonym  Finder  lists  as  additional  words  for  auxiliary:  Giver  of  aid,  helper, 
assistant,  cooperator,  copartner,  co-worker,  ally,  and  many  others. 

In  order  to  fulfill  this  wide  ministry  for  OBC/OTS,  our  Ladies'  Auxiliary  would 
like  to  increase  its  membership.  We  invite: 

*  Alumni  Ladies 

*  Friends  of  the  College 

*  Mothers  of  Students  or  Grads 
to  join  us  in  this  ministry. 

Meetings  are  held  five  or  six  times  a  year  in  London  and  in  Toronto,  to  keep 
members  informed  of  special  events  and  items  for  prayer  in  the  life  of  the  College 
and  Seminary,  the  faculty,  staff  and  students. 

If  you  fit  into  one  of  the  above  categories,  we  need  you.  Help  us  help  our  Col- 
lege and  Seminary.  Please  contact  Mrs.  Marj.  Cassidy  in  London  or  Miss  lone 
Essery  at  O.B.C.  if  you  want  to  be  a  helper. 


Mrs.  Marjorie  Cassidy 
474  Cypress  Avenue 
London,  Ont. 
N6H  3R3 

Phone:471-6173 


Miss  lone  Essery 
Ontario  Bible  College 
25  Ballyconnor  Court 
Willowdale,  Ont.  M2M  4B3 

Phone:226-6380 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


FACULTY  HONOURS 

With  all  their  teaching  and  student 
involvement  at  O.B.C.,  our  faculty  still 
find  time  to  upgrade  their  own  educa- 
tion, and  thus  increase  their  effective- 
ness in  this  ministry. 

During  the  past  summer,  two  of  our 

faculty  men  have  completed  work  on 

doctoral   programmes   and   received 

their  degrees. 

MICHAEL  D.  JORDAN  received  the 

degree  Doctor  of  fvlusical  Arts  from 

the    University  of    Michigan    (Ann 

Arbor)  on  August  21,    1977,   with 

special  area  of  study  in  Voice. 


NEW  FACULTY  HELP 


Michael  Jordan,  D.M.A. 
Dept.  of  Music 

BRICE  L.  MARTIN  received  the 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  degree  on 
May  28,  1977  from  McMaster  Uni- 
versity, Department  of  Religion. 
We  congratulate  these  men  on  a  job 
well  done,  and  wish  them  God's  best 
as  they  continue  to  work  among  us. 


MRS.  BETH  DAVEY,  B.A.,  M.A. 

Mrs.  Davey  has  already  served  part 
time  on  the  faculty.  This  year  she  will 
be  more  deeply  involved  in  the  English 
Department. 

An  accomplished  musician  (piano 
and  organ),  and  a  trained  teacher,  she 
will  make  a  vital  contribution  to  our 
work.  Later  she  will  add  Public  Speak- 
ing and  Speech  to  her  work  load. 


Brice  Martin,  Ph.D. 
Dept.  of  Biblical  Studies 


MR.  JOHN  BELL, 
A.R.C.T.,  B.S.M.,  M.Mus. 

John  is  a  graduate  of  O.B.C.  '75, 
and  since  then  has  added  to  his 
music  skills  with  a  degree  Master  of 
Music  in  Voice  Performance  from 
Temple  University,  Philadelphia.  He 
is  now  married  to  an  O.B.C.  grad, 
Sharon  (McVety,  B.S.M.  '73). 

The  Bells  have  applied  to,  and 
been  accepted  by  the  Greater  Europe 
Mission  for  service  in  Belgium.  For 
this  interim  year  of  1977-78,  John  will 
direct  the  O.B.C.  Chorale  and  share 
in  the  music  ministry  of  his  alma 
mater. 

We  welcome  these  additions  to  our 
faculty. 


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PLAYING  INTO  THE 
HANDS  OF  THE  OCCULT 

That  title  is  the  last  of  many  that  were 
discarded.  And  even  now  it  is  ap- 
pended with  apprehension  and  con- 
cern, lest  it  grieve  some  brethren,  or 
be  misconstrued  or  misunderstood. 
But  somehow  we  feel  it  must  be  said: 
Many  Christians  are  playing  into  the 
hands  of  the  occult. 

Sometimes  it  is  indeed  "play" — an 
ouija  board,  transcendental  medita- 
tion, yoga,  horoscopes,  E.S.P.,  astrol- 
ogy. And  an  unhealthy  interest  in  the 
growing,  but  not  new  phenomena  of 
the  occult,  parapsychology,  demon- 
ism  and  witchcraft.  Even  drugs,  music 
and  seances  are  part  of  the  game! 

Courses,  studies  and  practices 
have  entered  many  educational  sys- 
tems. Television  and  films  major  on 
the  occult  and  the  ghoulish.  Newspa- 
pers literally  fill  pages  with  ads  to  en- 
tice the  gullible.  Practitioners  stop  you 
on  the  street,  at  the  airport  or  any  pub- 
lic gathering,  to  sell  a  flower  and  solicit 
funds  for  their  unseemly  literature. 

I  have  a  file  of  literature  from  one 
well  known  cult  that  TIME  magazine 
listed  as  'fundamentalist  porno- 
graphy." It  is  that.  And  worse,  it  uses 
the  Bible  and  Bible  language  to  con- 
fuse and  snare  the  unwary. 

The  amazing  thing  is  that  many 
Christians  are  being  sucked  in  (as  in  a 
vacuum)  because  they  play  at  church, 
play  at  being  Christians,  play  with  off- 
beat and  occult  practices. 

And  they  are  not  all  just  gullible,  im- 
mature people.  Some  fine  minds  and 
respected  names  are  presenting  ma- 
terial that  can  only  harm,  if  not  delude, 
the  unwary.  Books  on  the  occult  (sup- 
posedly against  it  or  explaining  it)  are 
proliferating,  feeding  the  fears,  frustra- 
tions and  uncertainties  of  many 
people. 

A  recent  book  called  "The  Bible  and 
the  Bermuda  Triangle"  (by  George 
Johnson  &  Don  Tanner)  presents  a 
case  that  does  disservice  to  scripture 
taken  out  of  context  and  often  impro- 
perly exegeted.  After  reading  it,  one  is 
left  with  the  opinion  that  Satan  is  not 
only  "the  Prince  of  the  Power  of  the 
Air"  but  also  in  control  of  much  of  the 
universe.  His  "earthly"  headquarters 
are  in  the  storm  ridden  Bermuda  Tri- 
angle. 

Unsubstantiated  stories  of  people 
who  have  been  to  heaven  (or  hell)  and 


returned,  are  recited  in  all  serious- 
ness. Von  Daniken  and  Edgar  Cayce, 
and  the  seekers  of  sea  monsters  are 
all  quoted,  usually  with  tacit  approval. 
The  fabled  Atlantis  and  Lemuria  with 
accompanying  mythical  stories  are  all 
here. 

One  closes  the  book,  not  with  a 
sense  of  triumph  in  the  sovereignty  of 
God,  but  with  a  sense  of  futility  if  faith 
is  not  strong,  or  of  fun  if  you  like 
science  fiction. 

Another  book  was  more  frightening 
by  virtue  of  the  author's  name  and  rep- 
utation. Clifford  Wilson  did  a  magnifi- 
cent service  as  he  answered  Eric  Von 
Daniken's  "The  Chariots  of  the  Gods" 
with  his  devastating  "Crash  Go  the 
Chariots". 

Now  he  writes,  lucidly  and  brilliantly, 
"U.F.O.'s  and  Their  Mission  Impossi- 
ble". 

There  are  many  Christians  who  be- 
lieve in  Unidentified  Flying  Objects 
(U.F.O.'s)  mostly  because  of  the  ad- 
jective "unidentified".  Curiosity  con- 
sumes many  people. 

But  Dr.  Wilson  almost  walks  arm  in 
arm  with  Von  Daniken.  Where  he  once 
shot  the  U.F.O.  myth  into  the  dust,  he 


now  collates  all  available  information 
to  present  an  account  of  visitors  from 
outer  space.  Not  of  "gods"  as  does 
Von  Daniken,  but  of  "demons"  and 
demonic  activity.  Including  strange 
beings,  people  taken  into  "flying 
saucers"  and  other  recorded  (but  still 
unsubstantiated)  data. 

It  is  hard  to  consider  Dr.  Wilson's  al- 
most wholesale  acceptance  of  the 
U.F.O.  stories  that  have  appeared  in 
news  media  since  the  late  19th  cen- 
tury. 

After  reading  these  two  books,  talk- 
ing to  many  people  across  Canada 
and  the  U.S.A.,  and  lecturing  and 
speaking  on  the  occult  in  church  and 
school,  I  am  firmly  convinced  that  oc- 
cultism has  become  the  plaything  of 
many  people.  The  darling  subject  of 
many  writers.  And  above  all,  the  great 
delusion  of  Satan  who  must  laugh  at 
the  gullibility  of  so  many  people  who 
will  believe  almost  anything  as  long  as 
it  is  spoken  or  written  forcibly  enough. 

A  warning!  If  you  are  involved  in,  in- 
terested in,  obsessed  with  reading 
about,  or  practising,  occultism,  QUIT. 
If  you  are  not,  DON'T  START. 

Occultism  is  not  a  game. 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


JUBILEE 

1977  has  been  a  year  of  pomp  and 
ceremony,  of  excitement  and  pag- 
eantry for  Britain  and  Commonwealth 
countries.  During  the  summer  months, 
the  world  has  watched— with  mixed 
feelings — as  millions  of  earthly  sub- 
jects have  shown  their  love  and  re- 
spect to  their  earthly  sovereign. 

Queen  Elizabeth  II  of  England  is  ce- 
lebrating the  25th  year  of  her  reign. 
Jubilee  is  the  word,  and  jubilation  has 
been  the  expression  of  it. 

As  a  citizen  of  a  Commonwealth 
country  (and  one  who  happens  to  love 
the  Queen  and  what  she  symbolizes 
as  a  uniting  force  for  many  people),  I 
have  watched  with  great  enjoyment 
the  festivities  held  in  her  honour.  I 
have  been  amazed  to  see  thousands 
of  people  wait  long  hours  to  see  only  a 
glimpse  of  their  Queen,  and  have 
been  thrilled  to  hear  cheers  from  the 
throngs  who  love  her  and  respect  her. 
Surely  this  is  right  and  good  in  a  day 
when  so  little  feeling  is  expressed  or 
respect  shown  for  those  whom  God 
has  set  up  as  earthly  authorities. 

And  yet  as  I  watched,  my  mind  was 
drawn  to  another  scene,  yet  to  be, 
when  all  nations  under  heaven  shall 
gather  to  praise  the  King  of  Kings— 
the  One  Who  is  above  all  others- 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

With  the  eyes  of  my  soul  I  see,  as 

John  did  long  ago,  all  heaven  and 

earth  congregated.  I  hear  the  song  of 

the  elders: 

"Thou  art  worthy  to  take  the  book, 

and  to  open  the  seals  thereof;  for 

Thou  hast  redeemed  us  to  God  by 

Thy   blood  out   of  every   kindred, 

and  tongue,  and  people,  and  nation. 

And  the  angels,  ten  thousand  times 

ten  thousand,  join  in  the  chorus: 

"Worthy  is  the  Lamb  that  was  slain 

to  receive  power,  and  riches,  and 

wisdom,  and  strength,  and  honour, 

and  glory,  and  blessing." 

"And  every  creature  in  heaven  and  on 

the  earth,  and  under  the  earth,  and 

such  as  are  in  the  sea,  and  all  that  are 

in  them"  (no  mixed  feelings  here!)  I 

hear  saying: 

"Blessing,  and  honour,  and  glory, 

and  power,  be  unto  Him  that  sitteth 

upon  the  throne,  and  unto  the  Lamb 

for  ever  and  ever." 

What  a  day  that  will  be!  Surely  the 

hearts  of  God's  people  should  even 

now   echo  the   cry,    "Worthy  is   the 

Lamb."  And  should  we  not  also  add, 

"Even  so,  come  quickly.  Lord  Jesus." 

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ODE  TO  BETH 

ON  ATTAINING  ADULTHOOD 

Today  you  are  eighteen 
impossible  but  true 
wonderfully  true 
because 
wonderfully  you. 

You 

a  product  of  love 

God's 

and  ours. 

You 

a  special  creation 

unique 

among  \he  world's  billions 

unduplicated 

from  eternity  past 

to  eternity  future. 

You 

a  reflection  of  God's  glory 
a  demonstration  of  His  grace 
a  vehicle  of  His  Spirit 
because  a  willing  recipient 
of  His  full  salvation. 

We  were  blest 

to  be  entrusted  with  your  care 

to  see 

your  first  smile 

your  first  step 

to  feel 

your  soft  cheek 

your  clutching  grip 

to  hear 

your  cry 

your  laughter 

your  song 

your  prayer 

to  share 

your  thoughts 

your  feelings. 

We  watched  you 
grow 

experiment    discover 
study    learn 
analyze    choose 
discard    keep 
thrive  on  challenge 
seek  the  best 
plan    capture 
excel. 

Now  you  are  beyond  us 
equipped  to  stand  alone 
a  prime  candidate 
to  stand  with  another 
to  hold  your  own  beloved 
in  God-appointed  time. 


Now  you  are  beyond  us 
yet  never  out  of  touch 
always  flesh  of  our  flesh 
always  at  home  at  our  home. 

Now  you  are  beyond  us 
yet  not  beyond  Him 
Who  is  always  there 
to  guide    protect 
teach    correct 
strengthen    satisfy 
fulfill. 

What  can  we  do  now? 
We  still  can 
watch     listen 
pray    rejoice 
anticipate 

all  you  shall  become 
all  He  shall  do  in  you 
and  through  you. 

Love  continues 

His 

and  ours. 

— tVlom  and  Dad 


The  above  poem  was  written  by  Mr. 
Jim  Reese  (of  ttie  Campbell-Reese 
Evangelistic  Team).  He  has  written 
several  very  moving  and  delightful 
family  articles  that  we  have  pub- 
lished, including  the  heart-stirring 
story  of  their  retarded  daughter,  "Re- 
tarded and  Beautiful."  He  founded  a 
fine  organization  that  helps  "excep- 
tional children"  (his  phrase)  that  is 
worthy  of  support. 


SOCIOLOGIST  SAYS 
EVANGELICALS  EMPLOY 
LONG  ABANDONED 
TEACHING  TECHNIQUE 

HARRISONBURG,  VA  (EP)— A  so- 
ciology professor  at  an  American  Bap- 
tist institution  declared  here  that  the 
evangelical  community  is  "guilty"  of 
picking  up  a  teaching  technique  that 
the  rest  of  the  world  abandoned  long 
ago. 

In  a  talk  at  Eastern  l\/lennonite  Col- 
lege here,  Dr.  Tony  Campolo  of  East- 
ern College,  St.  Davids,  Pa.,  noted 
that  the  small-group  discussions  have 
become  popular  among  evangelicals. 
But  he  warned  that  they  are  an  out- 
growth of  sensitivity  training,  and 
can  be  risky  if  not  handled  prop- 
erly. 

According  to  the  sociologist,  small- 
group  discussions  lead  to  a  "phony 
kind  of  honesty"  where  people,  to  be 
socially  acceptable,  talk  about  prob- 
lems that  they  pretend  are  bothering 
them. 

"In  short,"  he  said,  "you  don't  really 
want  to  know  all  about  me.  And  I  don't 
really  want  to  tell  you  all  about  me.  So 
we'll  play  a  game  in  which  I'll  tell  you 
some  things  and  pretend  that  this  is 
the  deep  inner  me  that  I've  never  told 
anybody  before." 

Dr.  Campolo  asserted  that  people 
often  tell  things  that  will  build  up  their 
image  rather  than  bring  it  down.  "We 
really  start  being  honest  when  we  risk 
those  things  about  ourselves  which 
we  know  will  hurt  our  image,"  he  said. 


19  11  J 


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i'l'j  ;;  ".  \/'j'',i'/-:  -.orrio  Uihr^iA  or  hi- 
!;)">  y.  .;r  o' yn)/  for  a  party,  "trtck  or 

\\',/i  t',;;t  'j'.-rrior,-,  and  exorcism 
h;;/':  '>(;'.'.i'rif;  popular  ^Exorcist, 
Orfi(;ri  f  /'>rM',t  II  (,-K,  -.if':  '.arnplf;',) 
Uif;  ''.hrr.ti.-jri  oorrirrnjriity  -.hoijIO  oon- 

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ti/-r)f(\\i\':  for  i-jodl/  li/irKj,  ;3  po-r/or-.o- 
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and  o;)f',  fho-  ooritr.-jotiori  to  Hal- 
l0'//(;'f;ri  \'A\<yn<-A  ■')■.  fho-  ovo-roioo-  bo- 
carno  fun  and  garno-o 

Porhap',  if  r.  riot  a  thoolorjioal 
proMorn,  but  Mnoo-  oonto-rnporary  oul- 
iuro  'ioorno  to  bf;  aooo-ptirirj  oooultiorn 
and  all  ito  rnanifootafiorio,  //';  rioo-d  to 
rooorioido-r  our  irrntatiori  of  tfif;  old 
paqan  fr;rrri',  of  d';rriori',  iri  //hato-/o-r 
ff^rrri  tho-/  aro  dro-'/,od  Wf;  rio-od  to 
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particularly  in  public  communication. 
So  we  are  told  by  Recorder 
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nolds, who  was  kind  enough  to  take 
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all! 


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being  published  without  his  permis- 
sion, although  we  hope  we  have 
that);  "I  always  appreciate  receiving 
the  Evangelical  Recorder.  The  blend 
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interesting  and  profitable  reading. 

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Lindbergh"  which  appeared  in  the 
June,  1977  issue. 

"I  would  not  want  to  detract  from  the 
honour  that  is  due  Lindbergh  for  his 
unique  example  of  courage  and  de- 
termination Nevertheless,  to  say  that 
his  feat  of  crossing  the  Atlantic  in 
1927  dared  to  attempt  to  conquer 
the  unknown"  and  "literally  opened 
the  skies  for  the  marvel  and  conve- 
nience of  modern  air  travel"  is  a  trav- 
esty of  fact. 

"Eighi  years  previously,  on  June  1 5, 
1919,  two  British  aviators,  John  Al- 
cock  and  Arthur  Whitten-Brown  did 
conquer  the  heretofore  unknown  in 
making  the  first  transatlantic  flight, 
from  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland  to  the 
Connemara  Peninsula  of  Ireland, 
They  accomplished  this  by  flying  a 
Vickers  Vimy  bi-plane,  built  to  fight 
over  the  battle  fields  of  Belgium  and 
France,  and  not  specifically  designed 
and  built  for  a  trans-Atlantic  crossing, 
with  the  advantage  of  nine  additional 
years  of  areonautical  development. 

"It  is  true  that  Lindbergh  had  to 
make  his  crossing  "without  proper  na- 
vigational aids"  but  at  the  least  they 
were  good  enough  for  him  to  make  a 
land  tall  on  the  coast  of  Franco  not 
very  far  off  track.  Alcock  and  Brown 
had  virtually  no  navigational  equip- 
ment, had  no  idea  where  they  were 
when  they  crossed  the  coast  of  Ire- 
land, and  actually  thought  they  were 
over  southern  England. 

"The  British  (and  Canadians!  ed) 
have  always  been  slow  to  shout  their 
achievements  and  as  a  consequence 
have  not  often  received  the  credit  due 
to  them.  As  Canadians  let  us  be  fair. 
If  anyone  "opened  the  skies  for  the 
marvel  and  convenience  of  modern 
air  travel"  it  was  Alcock  and  Brown, 
58  years  ago  under  conditions  of  al- 
most unbelievable  adversity.  In  any 
event,  the  spiritual  application  of  your 
article  was  excellent." 


Ed.  Note:  Now  why  didn't  I  learn  that 
at  school.  I  am  glad  to  set  the  record 
(and  the  Recorder)  straight.  Glad  that 
in  both  cases,  the  spiritual  application 
holds.  But  let  us  wave  the  flag  for 
Canada,  and  perhaps  not  be  quite  as 
bashful  in  the  future! 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


A  PALADIN  OF 
CANADIAN  EVANGELISM 

When  about  45  evangelical  scholars 
and  Christian  leaders  met  recently  in 
Chicago,  III.,  they  issued  what  has 
been  titled  "The  Chicago  Call." 

The  premise  for  the  group's  discus- 
sion was  to  call  the  evangelical  com- 
munity to  fully  recover  "their  historic 
roots  and  continuity  with  the  church 
throughout  history".  Their  document 
confesses:  "that  we  have  lost  the  full- 
ness of  our  Christian  heritage,  too 
readily  assuming  that  the  scriptures 
and  the  Spirit  make  us  independent  of 
the  past."  It  is  regrettable  that  the  rep- 
resentatives were  entirely  U.S. 
oriented  and  not  representative  of  the 
church  in  North  America  or  even  the 
church  universal. 

Perhaps  it  is  difficult  to  engineer 
such  a  wide  project,  although  the  Lau- 
sanne Congress  showed  it  could  be 
done  to  some  degree. 

The  roots  and  substance  of  historic 
Christianity  have  been  rediscovered, 
rediscussed  and  rewritten  a  great  deal 
during  the  past  decade.  And  about 
time,  too.  The  present  climate  of  "me 
too"  in  the  "born  again"  movement  of 
the  70's  clearly  calls  for  a  firm,  Biblical, 
theological  declaration.  The  semantic 
undergrowth  where  words  and 
phrases  mean  different  things  to  dif- 
ferent people,  must  be  cleared  away. 

This  article  is  being  written  and  pub- 
lished in  Canada  where  much  apathy 
and  ignorance  are  very  evident,  in  re- 
gard to  the  history  and  the  verities  of 
the  Christian  faith.  We  need  someone 
to  issue  a  clarion  call;  we  need  dia- 
logue and  mature  understanding;  we 
need  a  "Canadian  Call  to  the  Church" 
to  once  again  declare  for  the  faith, 
once  and  for  all  delivered  to  the  saints. 
Perhaps  a  man  like  Dr.  Stewart  L 
Boehmer,  Chancellor  of  OBC/OTS 
could  be  such  a  paladin  for  our  day. 
But  somehow  our  fragmented  Chris- 
tian community;  our  warped  and  self- 
ish ideas;  our  (often)  unbiblical  stance; 
our  lack  of  unity,  love  and  fellowship; 
our  missing  social,  spiritual,  global 
concern  must  all  be  changed. 

How? 

God  uses  men,  as  history  indicates. 
Let  us  pray,  then  work  to  such  an  end 
as  will  glorify  God,  extend  His  king- 
dom and  edify  His  church.  Then  Can- 
ada and  the  world  will  hear  His  voice. 

Any  ideas?  Write  to  us  soon. 


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THESE  PEOPLE  ARE  COMING  TO  ALUMNI 

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Bernice  Smith  '47 

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Bob  Furtney  '67 

Mark  Boughan  '77 

Jim  Amy  '77 

Doreen  Langman  '77 

Don  Collar  '73 

Ken  Morgan  '70 

Sharon  Dickinson  '76 

Marcelle  Godfrey  '43 

Mary  Wiens  '76 

Charles  Jackson  '67 

Tim  Roberts  '75 

Gordon  Dorey  '57 

lone  Essery  '51 

Don  Ralph  '72 

Wendy  Alton  '75 

Paul  Adams  '75 

Doug  Percy  '36 

Ray  Miller  '74 

Lorna  Arndt  '50 

David  Bell  '53 

Lilian  Softley  '36 

Helen  Hofstetter  '49 

Eileen  Pettit  '76 

Betty  Franco  '49 

Diane  Taylor  '77 

Wilson  Flanagan  '33 

Nancy  Black  '71 

Doris  Warren  '31 

HOW  ABOUT  YOU? 

PUT  THAT  DATE  DOWN  IN  YOUR  DIARY. 

WRITE  AND  TELL  US  YOU  WILL  BE  HERE  TOO! 

ALUMNUS  INVENTS 
A  NEW  GAME 

That  is  more  than  a  game.  It  is  a 
home  course  in  psychology,  a  com- 
munication game  that  brings  families 
together;  a  fun  time  that  can  be  help- 
ful. 

Mr.  Ian  Percy,  B.R.E.  '69,  who 
heads  up  The  Canadian  Training  Re- 
sources Group,  Inc.  felt  people  might 
respond  better  around  a  game  board. 
After  several  years  of  trial  and  error, 
he  has  come  up  with  "LET'S  TALK". 
It's  really  a  conversational  game  that 
carries  "bonuses,"  "giving,"  "taking," 
and  many  helpful  hints  and  insights, 
all  while  you  play. 

The  game  is  available  at 

Modern  Games  Inc. 

The  Colonnade 

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Toronto,  Ont.  or 

The  Canadian  Training  Resources 
Group  Inc. 

Suite  306,  The  Fairmont  BIdg. 

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ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION 
CONSTITUTION 

The  revised  Constitution  of  Febru- 
ary, 1977,  has  been  accepted  by  the 
membership  of  the  Alumni  Association 
of  Ontario  Bible  College  and  now  will 
become  the  official  Constitution. 


NOMINATIONS  FOR  ALUMNI 
EXECUTIVE  FOR  THE  NEXT 
TWO  YEARS: 

Rev.    Gordon    Dorey — 

Past   President 
Kenneth  Morgan — President 
Charles  Jackson — Vice  President 
Wendy  Alton — Vice  President 
lone  Essery — Secretary 

Members-at-large — 

Marcelle    Godfrey 
Raymond  Miller 
Robert  Davis 
Dorman   Quinton 


To  U.S.  Citizens 

Wishing  to  Donate 

To  Ontario  Bible  College 

or  Ontario  Theological  Seminary 

We  cannot  issue  tax  deductible 
receipts  to  you  if  you  mail  your  con- 
tribution directly  to  the  College.  But 
for  tax  deductible  receipts  remit  to: 

D.  M.  STEARNS  MISSIONARY 
FUNDING. 

147  W.  School  House  Lane 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  19144 

Cheques  should  be  made  pay- 
able to  the  D.  M.  Stearns  Mission- 
ary Fund,  but  clearly  designated  for 
Ontario  Bible  College  or  Ontario 
Theological  Seminary. 


ADDITIONAL  NOMINATIONS 
FOR  ALUMNI  EXECUTIVE: 
Article  V,  Section  2 

"The  President  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation shall  appoint  a  Nominating 
Committee  composed  of  Active 
Members  of  the  Alumni  Association  as 
described  in  sub-section  (a)  of  Section 
1  of  Article  III.  The  Nominating  Com- 
mittee shall  present  one  or  more  no- 
minees for  election  to  each  office.  No- 
minations may  come  from  the  Alumni 
at  large.  Nomination  forms  will  be 
mailed  before  the  election  time.  In 
order  for  nominees  to  be  eligible  they 
must  be  Alumni  in  good  standing  and 
willing  to  stand  for  office.  Nominators 
must  also  be  Alumni  in  good  standing. 
Nominations  will  be  seconded  by  an 
Alumnus  (1)  in  good  standing.  All  no- 
minations must  be  in  the  possession 
of  the  Alumni  Secretary  by  September 
30,  1977." 

Ballots  will  include  resumes  of  the 
nominees. 


ON  THE  HOME  FRONT 

•MRS.  MABEL  BAKER  (MABEL 
SAWYER  '51)  graduated  from  Sir 
Sandford  Fleming  College,  Social  Ser- 
vices Course,  Peterborough,  Ont.  on 
May  7. 

*MR.  JOHN  BELL,  B.S.M.  75  re- 
ceived the  M.  Mus.  degree  from  Tem- 
ple University,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  in 
May. 

•REV.  ALEX  M.  DEANS  '49,  B.R.E. 
'74,  was  ordained  on  June  19  at  St. 
Andrews  Humber  Heights  Presby- 
terian Church,  Toronto. 


•MR.  RAYMOND  JOHNSON,  B.Th. 
'73,  commenced  his  ministry  at  Bethel 
Evangelical  Baptist  Church,  Missis- 
sauga,  Ont.  on  June  1. 
•REV.  RAYMOND  McCREADY, 
B.R.E.  '70,  was  ordained  at  Temple 
Baptist  Church,  Sarnia,  Ont.  on  May 
17. 

•MISS  SUSAN  MOFFAT,  B.R.E.  '71, 
received  her  B.A.  and  B.Ed,  degrees 
from  York  University,  Toronto  on  June 
4. 

•REV.  RAY  NICHOLSON  '52  com- 
menced his  ministry  at  the  Fellowship 
Baptist  Church  in  Burford,  Ont.  on 
May  1. 

•  DR.  SYDNEY  PAGE,  B.Th.  '67,  has 
commenced  his  ministry  as  Assistant 
Professor  of  New  Testament  Litera- 
ture at  the  North  American  Baptist 
College,  Edmonton,  Alberta. 

•MR.  GRANVILLE  RAPHAEL,  B.R.E. 
'72,  received  the  Ph.D.  degree  from 
the  California  Graduate  School  of 
Theology  on  June  6. 

•  MR.  ANDREW  STEER  '42  has  re- 
tired after  35  years  of  service  to  the 
sailors  with  the  Quebec  Seamen's  In- 
stitute. 

•REV.  JOHN  STEVENETT,  B.R.E. 
'73,  was  ordained  at  Spring  Garden 
Baptist  Church,  Willowdale,  Ont.  on 
June  23. 

•MR.  GENE  TEMPELMEYER,  B.Th. 
'77,  commenced  his  ministry  at  Port 
Elgin  Baptist  Church,  Port  Elgin,  Ont. 
on  May  8. 

•  MR.  JIM  TUGHAN,  B,  Th.  '74,  re- 
ceived the  B.A.  (Hon.)  degree  with  a 
major  in  Fine  Arts  from  the  University 
of  Waterloo  in  May. 

•  MR.  PHILIP  VASAN,  B.  Th.  '72,  re- 
ceived the  Ph.D.  degree  from  Califor- 
nia Graduate  School  of  Theology  on 
June  6. 

•  REV.  ALEXANDER  YOUNG,  B.Th. 
'74,  was  ordained  on  May  1 1  at  Olivet 
Baptist  Church,  Verdun,  Que. 

•  MR.  &  MRS.  WM.  ZYLSTRA,  B.R.E. 
'77  (LAURIE  MACDONALD  '76)  com- 
menced their  ministry  at  Cecil  Lake, 
B.C.  with  Village  Missions  on  June  5. 


ON  FURLOUGH 

•  MR.  &  MRS.  D.  BAKER  (ANNE  BAI- 
LEY '69)  from  Tanzania,  E.  Africa 
(A.I.M.)  in  June. 

•  REV.  &  MRS.  FRANK  BYRNE,  B.Th. 
'63  (JANE  ARNO  '63)  from  Indonesia 
(C.B.O.M.B.)in  June. 

•  MISS  HEATHER  FORSYTH  ■72-'73 
(A.I.M.)  from  Kenya,  Africa  in  August. 


•  MR.  &  MRS.  PAUL  HOOPER,  B.  Th. 
'72  (W.B.T.)  from  Papua  New  Guinea 
in  June. 

•MISS    FLORENCE    HOUGH    '36 
(U.F.M.)  from  Brazil,  S.A.  in  August. 
•MISS    MAVIS    KITTRIDGE    '39-'40 
(S.I.M.)   from    Nigeria,   W.   Africa   in 
July. 

•  MISS  INES  PENNY  '49  (S.I.M.)  from 
Nigeria,  W.  Africa  in  June. 

•MISS    JEAN    SMITH    '57    (W.B.T.) 
from  Papua  New  Guinea  in  May. 
•MR.   &  MRS.  ROY  TIBBIT,   B.R.E. 
'72,  from  Philippines  (W.B.T.)  in  June. 

•  MR.  &  MRS.  RAYMOND  WATTS,  B. 
Th.  '61  (DINI  ZUNNEBERG  '58)  from 
Kenya,  E.  Africa  in  June. 


TO  THE  FIELD 

•  MR.  &  MRS.  JOHN  ADAMS,  B.Th. 
'73  (CAROL,  B.R.E.  '73)  to  Quito, 
Ecuador  on  July  1 ,  with  W.R.M.F. 
•MR.  &  MRS.  KEITH  ANDERSON 
(RUTH  MORTSON  '74-'75)  to  Peru, 
S.A.  in  April  (R.B.M.U.) 

•  MISS  GERTRUD  BAUMANN  '63-'64 
to  Naini  Leprosy  Hospital  (T.L.M.), 
India  in  April. 

•MR.  ANAND  CHAUDHARI,  B.Th. 
'69,  to  India  in  May,  following  a  series 
of  speaking  engagements  in  North 
America. 

•  MISS  LAURA  COLLAR  '44  to  Israel 
on  June  19  (L'Arabian  Fellowship). 

•  REV.  &  MRS.  CARL  DeBOER,  B.Th. 
'67  (WILMA  HEYINK,  B.R.E.  '65)  to 
Japan  in  August  (F.B.F.M.B.). 

•  REV.  &  MRS.  STANLEY  DESJAR- 
DINE  '68  to  Tanzania,  Africa  in  August 
under  the  Missionary  Board  of  Church 
of  God. 

•  REV.  &  MRS.  MALCOLM  MacKEN- 
ZIE  (RUTH  MURPHY  '44-'45)  to  the 
Durban  Bible  College,  Natal,  S.  Africa 
inJuly  (T.E.A.M.). 

•MR.  &  MRS.  BOB  MORRIS,  B.Th. 
'66  (PAT  CHAMBERS  '64)  to  Pakistan 
(B.M.M.F.)in  July. 

•MR.  &  MRS.  TERRY  REGNAULT 
'69-'70  (ELAINE  '69-'70)  to  France 
(T.E.A.M.)  in  August. 
•MR.  &  MRS.  BILL  ROGERS  '49 
(S.I.M.)  to  Nigeria,  W.  Africa  in  June. 
•MISS  MARGARET  PETRIE  '46 
(C.M.M.L.)  to  Rwanda,  Africa  in  Au- 
gust. 


MARRIAGES 

•  MISS  PERRIE  BECKON  '71  to  MR. 
OWEN  PEVERALL  at  Trinity  Anglican 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


Church,  St.  Thomas,  Ont.  on  April  22. 
MISS  ANTHEA  ALLEN,  B.R.E.  71 
was  a  bridesmaid.  MISS  WENDY 
FISHER,  B.S.M.  72  was  the  organist. 

*  MR.  TED  BLENKHORNE,  B.Th.  77 
to  MISS  JANE  SHANTZ,  B.R.E.  76  at 
Benton  St.  Baptist  Church,  Kitchener, 
Ont.  on  July  8.  MR.  STEPHEN 
BRAMER,  B.Th.  76  was  best  man. 
MR.  MARK  CASSIDY,  B.Th.  77  was 
an  usher.  MISS  CHERYL  SAUER  76 
was  maid  of  honour  and  MISS  BETTY 
SMART,  B.R.E.  76  was  a  bridesmaid. 
MR.  DAVID  BELL,  B.Th.  '54  was  Mas- 
ter of  Ceremonies. 

*  MISS  KATHLEEN  COCHRAN  '68  to 
MR.  JOHN  BRANSTON  in  Westches- 
ter Bible  Church,  Broadview,  III.  on 
May  14. 

•MISS  ELEANOR  CONDON  75-76 
to  MR.  ROBERT  MacGREGOR  at 
Parkway  Bible  Church,  Scarborough, 
Ont.  on  May  6. 

*  MISS  BETTE  LOU  EBY,  B.S.M.  70 
to  MR.  PATRICK  A.  TERREL  at  Mis- 
sionary Tabernacle,  Kitchener,  Ont. 
on  April  30.  REV.  LANCE  JOHNSON, 
B.Th.  '69  officiated.  MRS.  WALLY 
TEICHROEB  (NANCY  EBY,  B.S.M. 
'69)  was  matron  of  honour  and  MISS 
SUSAN  DICKSON,  B.R.E.  '70  was 
bridesmaid.  MRS.  JOHN  FOREMAN 
(SHARON  MARKHAM,  B.S.M.  '72) 
was  the  soloist. 

•MISS  MARION  LONGLEY  '56  to 
MR.  WALLACE  REEDHEAD  on  May 
20  in  Thunder  Bay,  Ontario. 

*  MISS  NANCY  NEWMAN,  B.R.E.  '73 
to  MR.  PAUL  COUPLAND  on  May  28 
in  Willowdale,  Ont.  MISS  JEAN  WIL- 
LIAMS, B.R.E.  '73  was  the  maid  of 
honour. 

•MISS  ROBERTA  NICHOL,  B.R.E. 
'68  to  MR.  MURRAY  BOWSER  at 
West  Toronto  Baptist  Church,  Toronto 
on  May  14. 

•MR.  LARRY  PETRUNAK  '77  to 
MISS  JEAN  SHERK  at  Banfield  Me- 
morial Church,  Willowdale,  Ont.  on 
August  20.  MR.  PAUL  SEYMOUR, 
B.Th.  '77  was  best  man. 

*  MISS  SYLVIA  PITTS,  B.S.M.  '74,  to 
MR.  DONALD  FRY  at  Scarborough 
Gospel  Temple,  Scarborough,  Ont.  on 
June  25.  MISS  LOIS  EAGLESON  '72- 
'73  was  a  bridesmaid. 

•MISS  LOIS  REDINGER  '73-'75  to 
MR.  MICHAEL  SHINKAR  on  June  25 
at  Calvary  Gospel  Church,  Beams- 
ville,  Ont. 

*  MISS  DONNA  WHITE  '74-'75  to  MR. 
TIM  KUBONIWA  on  June  18  at  Cal- 
vary Gospel  Church,  Beamsville,  Ont. 


BIRTHS 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  JACK  FLETCHER, 
B.R.E.  '72,  a  son,  Robert  Christian,  on 
May  6,  in  Scarborough,  Ont. 
•To  MR.  &  MRS.  DAVID  GOLDS- 
MITH '63-'65  (HELEN  MILLER,  B.R.E. 
'67)  a  son,  Peter  James,  on  March  14 
in  Chatham,  Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  BILL  HICKLING 
(MARGARET  GORRIE  '63)  a  son, 
Ross  Andrew,  on  May  18  in  Missis- 
sauga,  Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  BOB  HUDSPITH 
(BARBARA  MERCER  '64-65)  a 
daughter,  Heidi,  on  May  16  in  Mano- 
tick,  Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  RAYMOND  JOHN- 
SON, B.Th.  '73  (LINDA  COLE,  B.R.E. 
'72)  a  son,  Craig  Andrew,  on  April  28 
in  Stouffville,  Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  BARRY  KLINCK 
(BEVERLEY  BUCHANAN,  B.R.E.  '72) 
a  son,  Jonathan  Blair,  on  June  19  in 
Thunder  Bay,  Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  IAN  LOGAN  '71 -'72 
(JACKIE  PEARSON,  B.Th.  '71)  a 
daughter.  Amy  Patricia  on  May  9  in 
Toronto. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  TOM  OLIVER 
(RUTH  WALDEN,  B.R.E.  '75)  a  son, 
Benjamin  Charles,  on  May  13  in  Wil- 
lowdale, Ont. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  PAUL  PERCY  '71 
(JANIS  HEAD  '68-'70)  a  chosen 
daughter,  Serena  Lee  Anne,  in  Hamil- 
ton, Ont.  in  June. 

•To  REV.  &  MRS.  ED  POINTNER, 
B.R.E.  '70  (STEPHANIE  CARKNER 
'68-'69)  a  son,  Markus  Ewald,  on  May 
7,  in  Lynn,  Mass. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  BRIAN  SEELEY, 
B.R.E.  '70  (W.R.M.F.),  a  chosen  son, 
Michael  Lawrence,  in  Quito,  Ecuador 
on  June  14. 

•To  MR.  &  MRS.  TOM  TOWNSEND, 
B.R.E.  '72  (LINDA  QUICK  •70-'72)  a 
daughter,  Heidi  Lee,  on  April  28  in 
Ridgetown,  Ont. 


DEATHS 

•MR.  FRANK  MacLACHLAN,  B.R.E. 
'66,  on  June  8  in  Toronto. 

•  MISS  MARY  NEAL  '42  in  Sault  Ste. 
Marie,  Ont.  on  June  19. 

•MR.    GEORGE    E.    PAGE    '23    in 
Toronto  on  February  16. 

•  MISS    OCEANA    SHUNK    '20    in 
Toronto  on  May  23. 

•REV.    DONALD    SINCLAIR    '32    in 
Hanover,  Ont.  on  June  5. 
•REV.    MALCOLM  MORDEN   '39   in 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Ont.  on  May  26. 


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Christian  Coalition. 


The  Trinity,  by  Robert  Crossley,  price  $1.25.  A 
small,  but  helpful  discussion  on  one  of  the 
most  discussed  doctrines  (by  cults  and  con- 
servatives) today.  A  clear  presentation. 

Getting  to  Know  Your  Faith,  by  Paul  Steeves, 
price  $2.95.  30  studies  in  a  handy  workbook 
and  study  guide  of  the  essentials  of  Christian- 
ity. 

HIS  Essays  on  Prayer,  price  $1 .95.  Fifteen  fine 
essays  on  prayer  by  Tozer  and  many  other  fa- 
miliar names. 

World  Mission,  by  Ada  &  Ginny  Lum,  price 
$1.75.  12  good  "homework"  studies  on  the 
Biblical  basis  of  missions. 

The  Day  of  the  Lion,  by  J.  A.  Motyer.  price 
$3.95.  An  excellent  commentary  on  the  book 
of  Amos,  a  prophets  message  for  the  affluent 
era  of  the  20th  century. 

Jeremiah  and  Lamentations,  by  R.  K.  Harri- 
son, price  $7.95.  The  Tyndale  Old  Testament 
commentaries  continue  to  produce  some 
great  books.  Here  is  one  of  them,  and  by  a 
Canadian  theologian.  This  is  an  excellent  one 
on  the  "weeping  prophet." 

Deuteronomy,  by  J.  A.  Thompson,  price  $7.95. 
Another  of  the  great  Tyndale  Old  Testament 
commentaries  on  a  rarely  understood  (or 
read!)  book  of  the  Bible. 

My  Love  Must  Wait,  by  David  Bentley-Taylor, 
price  $2.50.  A  new  story  of  the  great  mission- 
ary Henry  Martyn.  The  author  shows  how 
Martyn  put  love  (in  its  various  perspectives) 
into  its  proper  place,  submerged  in  submis- 
sion to  the  will  of  God. 

KREGEL  PUBLISHERS 

Thinking  Through  the  Bible,  by  John  McNicol, 
price  $10.95.  An  excellent,  one  volume,  com- 
plete Bible  commentary  by  longtime  O.B.C. 
Principal  John  McNicol. 

TYNDALE  HOUSE  PUBLISHERS 

Proverbs:  The  Secret  of  Beautiful  Living,  by 

James  T.  Draper,  Jr.  price  $5.95.  The  31 
chapters  of  the  book  of  Proverbs  are  full  of 
true  "wisdom  ".  The  author  picks  out  19  topics 
from  Proverbs  to  show  how  "the  fear  of  the 
Lord  is  the  beginning  of  wisdom." 

G.  R.  WELCH  COMPANY  LTD. 

I'm  Divorced;  Are  You  Listening,  Lord?  by 

Peggy  S.  Buck,  price  $1.25.  The  pathos  of 
these  prayer  poems  will  only  be  appreciated 
by  a  divorced  person.  They  will  also  help  dur- 
ing crisis  hours. 

Beacon  Bible  Expositions:  I  &  II  Corinthians, 

by  Oscar  F.  Reed,  price  $5.50.  A  fine  presen- 
tafion  of  two  of  Paul's  most  critical  letters  to 
the  Corinthian  Church. 

Get  Out  There  and  Reap,  by  Gwin  Ream  Tuck- 
ett,  price  $3.75.  If  this  isn't  a  record  (some- 
times hilarious,  sometimes  sad)  of  your 
church,  you  at  least  know  of  one  like  it.  Buy  it 
to  laugh  and  weep. 

As  Jesus  Passed  By,  by  Gipsy  Smith,  price 
$5.95.  12  excellent  sermons  from  one  of  the 
great  20th  century  evangelists. 

Love  Is  a  Magic  Penny,  by  Tom  E.  Emswiler, 
price  $3.25.  A  series  of  brief  and  bright  medi- 
tations for  the  Junior  High  age  group.  A  "cute"' 
but  interesting  gift  book. 


1 0,000  Illustrations  from  the  Bible,  by  Charies 
Little,  price  $10.95.  A  combination  concor- 
dance, dictionary  and  illustration  book  for 
busy  preachers. 

Mr.  Slef,  by  Ralph  Maftson,  price  $7.95.  A  sort 
of  "coffee  table"  book  in  allegorical  style, 
good  graphics  and  good  gospel. 

In  Christ's  Place,  by  Ronald  E.  Osborn,  price 
$5.50.  A  book  on  "servanthood "  as  seen  in 
the  Bible  through  Christ  and  His  disciples.  A 
profoundly  moving  book. 

Call  If  You  Need  Me,  by  Mary  Randall,  price 
$6.95.  Another  very  personal  book  that  deals 
with  a  Christian  grandmother's  love  for  a  re- 
bellious 19  year  old  grandson.  A  heart- 
searching,  heart-warming  book. 

You've  Really  Got  Me,  God,  by  Alan  Porter, 
price  $1.60.  Young  people  will  relate  to  the 
diary  recorded  ups  and  downs  of  a  young  per- 
son's search  for  the  will  of  God.  You  may  find 
this  is  your  diary  too. 

Outposts  of  Love,  by  Maria  Anne  Hursch- 
mann,  price  $3.95.  If  you  have  read  the  Hansi 
books,  you'll  want  to  follow  her  continuing 
story  of  service  for  God  around  the  worid. 

I  Cannot  Go  Back,  by  Jimmy  Snow,  price 
$3.50.  The  dramatic  story  of  a  star  of  Grand 
Ole  Opry  who  found  Christ  and  now  preaches 
to  the  country  music  folk.  Lots  of  famous 
names  and  pictures  included. 

At  the  Master's  Feet,  by  Sadhu  Sundar  Singh, 
price  $3.95.  A  needed  reprint  of  the  life  of  a 
man  converted  from  Hinduism,  translated 
from  Urdu  and  profoundly  spiritual. 

A  Life  to  Cherish,  by  Mildred  Tengbom,  price 
$5.95.  Prose  and  blank  verse  reveal  the  deep 
feelings  of  a  new  mother.  A  good  gift. 

Update,  by  Fred  Hartley,  price  $4.25.  One  of 
the  few  truly  honest  and  frank  books  about 
dating — according  to  Bible  standards.  Excel- 
lent for  the  dating  age. 

The  Bible  and  the  Bermuda  Triangle,   by 

George  Johnson  &  Don  Tanner,  price  $3.50. 
The  graphics  on  the  cover  of  this  book  are  de- 
scriptive of  its  contents.  Bible  content  is  small 
and  many  times  out  of  context;  Bermuda  Tri- 
angle looms  large  and  is  far  too  sensational. 
The  book  will  frighten  some  readers  and  dis- 
courage others.  It  may  enhance  the  offbeat 
search  for  spiritual  phenomena  in  physical 
forces.  Read  carefully. 

A  Lawyer  Examines  the  Bible,  by  Irwin  H.  Lin- 
ton, price  $4.25.  An  unusual  look  at  the  evi- 
dence for  inspiration  and  inerrancy  of  the 
Bible.  The  author  contends  that  this  evidence 
"'can  be  proved  theoretically  and  proves  itself 
empirically. "  A  good  book  about  the  Good 
Book. 

Faith  for  the  Times,  by  Alan  Redpath,  price 
$6.95.  Dr.  Redpath  covers  Isaiah  chapters  40 
to  66.  This  book  closes  the  3  volume  series 
on  the  "evangelical  prophet."  The  Bible  stu- 
dent will  find  fresh  and  helpful  insights  into 
this  important  prophecy. 

Confronting  Death,  by  William  H.  Griffith,  price 
$2.50.  Thanatology  (the  study  of  death)  has 
been  increasingly  expanded  during  the  past 
few  years.  Here  the  author  seeks  help  from 
minister,  lawyer,  physician  and  funeral  direc- 
tor for  more  help  for  the  bereaved. 


ONTARIO  BIBLE  COLLEGE/SEPTEMBER  1977 


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"partnership"  (Deut.  32:30).  We  know  this  principle,  but  do  we  use  it? 

"If  TWO  of  you  shall  agree  on  earth  as  touching  anything  that  they  shall  ask,  it  shall  be  done  for  them  of  My  Father 
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